Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Relief, President Roosevelt met the first check to the galloping advance of his program through Congress. The measure he sent to the Capitol started hemming & hawing by many a Senator and Representative who refused to consider it emergency legislation to be passed in a race with Spring's approach. Though its ultimate passage seemed assured, Congress was apparently determined to do plenty of amending before returning it to the White House. The real test of Roosevelt leadership would largely depend on whether the amendments could be held down to resounding trivialities...
...field, then is wide and deals primarily with the activities of man considered in relation to the natural environment. Because of this scope, the subject can be approached from diverse angles. All the activities of man may be considered region by region, or the different aspects of man's economic social, or political life in a given locality may furnish the basis of approach...
Methods of Approach...
...until the College insists that its advisers possess first of all a reasonably, complete knowledge of a t least the more popular fields of concentration, including a thorough appreciation of the possibilities of distribution, and secondly, a reasonable amount of personal interest in each advisee, will the system approach success. If such requirement necessitates a change in personnel because a number of Advisers are to busy to master the essential detail, that change should be made...
Preconceptions were jogged out of routine thinking last night. The audience was nervous and tense, the perfect approach for hearing something real. Mr. Walter Piston of the Music Department of dear old Harvard was the first to disturb the equilibrium. Some of his music in the suite for orchestra, written in the heyday of 1929, was slightly rough. His jazz was positively brutal, but there wasn't enough of it to drug his listeners into any sort of acquiescent mood. He is young and has ideas. I wonder if he is quite good for Harvard boys. He might teach them...