Word: basic
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Minutes of the last meeting of the Trustees of the A.S.M. give the following information on the Albert Sauveur Achievement Medal: "The purpose of this award is to recognize a metallurgical achievement which has stimulated other organized work along similar lines to such an extent that a marked basic advance has been made in metallurgical knowledge. Recognition for this pioneering work is herewith made in the award of the American Society for Metal Albert Sauveur Medal...
...generally rising prices. Observers believe, however, that this will not have the effect of giving Harvard men the benefit of continued very low prices, because the profit to the student organization is practically entirely in the nature of a sales commission, and the lower the basic prices go, the smaller becomes the margin available for commission allowance by the commercial house actually producing the service. The ultimate effect would be to make the field unprofitable for student organizations, with consequent lessening of competition and a corresponding rise in prices. But in the meantime, indications are that there will...
These are the great and enduring needs of mankind in life's struggle. The possession of such qualities is plainly the most valuable asset a college man can have. American colleges and their students will do well follow the counsel of President Hopkins, and redouble their emphasis upon such basic virtues. Surely America need not go further in educational experimentalism and radical abandonment of conservative teaching principles than even Soviet Russia finds it fruitful to go. --Boston Transcript...
...recognize, of course, that in order to do justice to me as an individual it would be necessary for you to depart from one of the basic policies of your publication, notwithstanding which fact I am entertaining the belief that your American spirit of fair play will get the better of your prejudices...
...observes that Dr. Fosdick expresses "all the needs and desires he may be expected to express during the succeeding five years . . . for economic deliverance, devotion to the highest, glad and fresh faith, fruitfulness of the soul, integration of our lives, renewed aspirations, attunement to God, beauty, high thoughts, basic virtues, larger and higher visions, spiritual welfare and wholesomeness of life...