Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean Chase stated that the School was planning to ultimately admit men fitted only for higher research, while Professor Worcester explained the duties of the Hygiene Department. Assistant Librarian Briggs urged intensive use of the library facilities...
Second: But, once a man is admitted as a student of Harvard College, there are strong arguments in favor of his being allowed to participate as completely in the college life as his purse permits. A contrary policy works against the good of the University. To admit a group only to the intellectual life of the University, to segregate it, make it eat, play, and talk together, to deprive it of all the benefits which more varied contacts would give, is simply to develop in Harvard a group which is not wholly of Harvard. Nothing is thereby gained, either...
Except for this one vague, and possibly unimportant trend toward the realm of the pure intellect, the President's views on the mechanics of an education are broad and humanistic: they admit the advantages of society's ameliorating influence; they hint at the beauties of conviviality; and most encouraging of all, they show a definite desire to perpetuate Harvard as a gentleman's retreat, rather than a gubber's paradise...
...outcry for cheap money failed to stampede President Roosevelt. Nobody was more ready than he to admit that his whole recovery program was experimental, that some parts of it worked better than others, that knots and kinks were inevitable. He was not discouraged by last week's slack-off. If one method of relief failed, he was willing to shift nimbly to something else, improvising as he went along. Currency inflation he still regarded as a last resort, to be used only in the event of a major business relapse. He did not propose to waste his best ammunition...
...appears that you are an extremely capable and good chief, able to deal with your people and to lead them, but you admit flogging a European. . . . You have set a very bad example...