Word: answer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would rather cut its own arm off than lose him if it were not for personal and administrative considerations, the issue clearly goes beyond these and raises the question of the department's general attitude toward the teaching of this subject. To this question no complete and dogmatic answer can be given which would invalidate its entire function. The department is highly esteemed in this country and abroad for its sound scholarship and within the University it adequately provides instruction in that cultural curiosity, but, perhaps, necessity-"appreciation...
...seat theatre 50 stories up in Manhattan's Chanin Building. The nonsense part is a studio audience participation quizz game called "quixie-doodles" conducted by Comic Bob Hawks. Sample: "Could a baseball game end in a 6-6 tie without a man touching first base?" Answer: "Yes, if the game was played between two girl teams." The sense part is a weekly question of public importance, debated earnestly before the microphone and then put before radio listeners at large...
...title your editorial "Locking the Barn Door"; you term the petition "ill-timed and misdirected;" and finally you suggest "a more constructive line" than "petitioning in behalf of a practically deceased Spanish Republic." Your attitude, in short, is that "It's too late." Let Professor Rupert Emerson answer you (I quote from his address at Ford Hall Friday evening...
...more constructive line? The "Crimson" suggested none. What constructive action, short of enlisting, can Harvard students take to help the cause they believe to be right? The answer is plain: they can only urge their government to act for them-by lifting the embargo. Allan B. Ecker...
...hardly agree with Fortune that such a poll gives America's answer to the arresting question of "What Price College?"... However important it may be, the economic factor does not exclude the consideration of cultural and non-material factors... If any conclusion can be drawn from the statistics as a whole it is that they prove nothing as to the success or failure of the American educational system. -Yale News