Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Conant's accepting the reunion donation of the Class of 1909, to which the Nazi press chief had contributed, is mercly an attempt to fight back at Harvard for its refusal to accept his scholarship to the University of Munich. The class donation was a completely impersonal affair as far as President Conant was concerned, and the decision as to who was to contribute to it was up to the Class of 1909 alone. By no stretch of the imagination could the acceptance of this gift have bound the University's hand with regard to any future donation...
...With or without President Conant," writes Hanfstaengl, he will send a Harvard graduate to the University of Munich next year. It is not too much to say that it will be "without President Conant". Any such unofficial philanthropy is purely the affair of Dr. Hanfstaengl and the graduate of the Class of 1936 who thinks he will gain from study at a German university...
Besides the obvious advantages of the trial flight in his new field of concentration, the extension of the tutorial system would make the planning of the study card in the spring a much more logical and scientific affair than it is at the present time. The hasty alterations and substitutions made by the tutors the following autumn under the existing system not only are carelessly thought out, but add to the general confusion in September of the Sophomore year. If this work were done leisurely in the spring, while the Freshman was getting his first taste of concentration, more sober...
Mysteries. Tokyo has one of the world's most up-to-date Metropolitan Police Buildings, a modernistic affair especially built to resist sudden attack. Yet (Continued on page 25) by dawn, without a shot having been fired in attack or defense, it was in the hands of young mustards...
...tradition of birthday celebrations with the happy exception that both fun and sentiment are to be magnified a thousandfold. Tears will be shed and Bacchus will sneak from his vineclad retreat to mingle quietly and not so quietly with revellers disposed to entertain him. And justly so. Such an affair merits the profoundest dignity, the tenderest sentiment, along with the most care free jubilation that those concerned can muster...