Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Student Union is due to meet the most crucial crisis in its brief career this afternoon at Phillips Brooks House. There the membership will be called upon to endorse another fanatical onslaught on the Union's basic principles of non-partisanship. This time the enticing vision of a Farmer-Labor Party is to be the incentive for a departure from the liberals' previously announced ideals...
Little if any basic changes have been made in the catalog which is slightly larger than the 1935 edition. Completer accounts of such organizations as the Harvard University Press, and the Hygiene Department are to be found, while a few organizations such as the Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission are listed for the first time. Another reason for the slightly larger size of the new edition is revealed in the 1936 University enrollment figures, which show an increase from 7870 of last year to 8263 for this year, although college enrollment has hardly changed. Other changes have been merely...
Posed in simple form in Manhattan last week was a basic problem of modern capitalism-the divorce of ownership from control. While the management of the $187,500,000 Tide Water Associated Oil Co. counted proxies for a corporate simplification plan in the company's office downtown at No. 17 Battery Place, Tide Water's biggest stockholder, a man with a $20,000,000 stake in the proceedings, sat uptown in his swank Sutton Place penthouse unable to do anything about...
Harvard's basic system of teaching, as developed under Dean Pound, rests on solid ground, for it puts the emphasis not just on practical craftsmanship,--learning to write briefs and wills and the like,--but on building up a sound thinking habit in the law; the difference between smartness and wisdom. It is in adapting its outlook to changing economic and social conditions and in taking a more realistic attitude toward the problems of undergraduates and students that the present faculty committee can return to Harvard the hallmark of supremacy in the world of legal education...
...should say," replied the distinguished attorney, "that the manufacturers were the immediate instruments through which they became unemployed, but that the basic cause . . was due to the fact that-I know no better way to say it-we live in an ever changing world...