Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woods." The crash of 1929 and the depression had a loud bark but no real bite, says Author Soule. "It is clear that we are not now in the critical period of revolution. What the depression of the thirties gave us was an excellent foretaste, however, of the aspect that crisis will assume if it does come. . . . [The President and his advisers] handed the system back to the old rulers, with enough help so that they were able to carry on. . . ." The two necessary ingredients for Revolution, says Author Soule, are the ferment of ideas and the rise to power...
...report which the Committee is publishing today fails to take into account this side of the question; it points to many unwarranted cases of unjustified force, but does not examine the broader aspect of the problem. Orders, inspired by practical experience, were given to stop a demonstration. They were carried out. Had the police been saner and had less the fooling of a field day, these regrettable instances, of course, might have been avoided. But Harvard must remember, also, that a riot in Charlestown is a more alarming occurrence than a case of spring fever in the Square...
...entirely to be praised. In this period of financial distress more than over before there is a very great danger that men who are capable of noteworthy contributions to the intellectual life of the University will be unable to make the trek to Cambridge. But there is one unfortunate aspect to this policy: the entire stress is being laid on concentrating small funds into a few large ones. This is like putting all one's eggs in one basket. It would be well enough if anyone could devise an even reasonably satisfactory system of selection. But when...
There is another aspect of the matter which suggests comment. The United States mails will be used for what, conceivably, may prove to be a vote condemning the Roosevelt policies. There will be no interference with such use, and with the publication of the findings. No such referendum as that about to be conducted in this country would be permitted in Hitler's Germany. So, in view of conditions in Germany and other lands across the sea, this Literary Digest referendum has addition interest and significance as a reminder that freedom of speech and opinion still exist in the United...
...Faculty Club, and the Union would be brought into closer contact with the University. If the pavement were torn up and replaced by grass, Quincy Street would eventually appear to be merely an extension of the Yard, and the buildings on the East side would lose their present disconnected aspect...