Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still concentrating on big volume and low price, Container lost money that year, even more in 1932. Next year, however, prices rose enough to provide a small profit. Last year's fat earnings were made with prices of its basic products at only 65% of the 1926 figure...
...with whatever "personality", is capable of taking part in reorganizing a curriculum, determining general administrative policies in a school or school system, measuring the results of instruction with modern scientific instruments, or guiding an individual pupil, unless he has studied the problems involved in these undertakings. That is the basic reasons why the college graduate had better not go directly into teaching. He is not prepared to take his proper part in anything the school has to do as a school: he may get on well enough, after a little floundering, in his own classroom...
This is an appropriate moment in the history of the world to celebrate the idea of a university and to take the occasion to define and to reaffirm most especially the basic relation between teaching and scholarship on the one hand, the power and the policies of government on the other. The Harvard anniversary is a most suitable occasion. For Harvard stands unqualifiedly for the principle that unless they are independent of each other the relation between universities and governments will not be healthy...
Died. Hu Han-min, 52, most potent champion of Chinese resistance to Japanese aggression; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Canton, China. Friend and disciple of the late great Sun Yatsen, he helped draft China's constitution, codified its basic laws, opposed Chiang Kai-shek's direct methods. Arrested and forced into exile, he returned to China last February on Chiang's invitation...
...introduction of the conference system in the organization of Philosophy A and Philosophy B, along the lines established by History I. Such a step will give meaning to the course for the C and D students and insure the A and B men of an adequate superstructure upon the basic framework of Philosophy...