Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Publications using the Harvard name in their titles must meet more requirements for approval than those which omit "Harvard." However, the report states that the basic criterion for approval of a publication is that "it must be a Harvard student enterprise...
...Chinese have not, for much longer than a decade, been able to take for granted, as Americans take for granted, that the basic political order of the present is stable, and that all private calculations can be based on such an assumption. Thus the Chinese commercial class cannot make long-term contracts with confidence that the Chinese state will endure as long as the contract . . . Corruption thrives on these conditions, but corruption is but one aspect of the consequences. The tendency to milk the soil instead of conserving it, to spend before money loses value instead of saving, to reap...
Whenever the project of a War Memorial comes to the fore, there are two schools of thought as to what basic idea should guide the design of it. There is the so-called practical idea; that the memorial should be "useful", that it should not be just a pile of masonry and bronze and as such, be just a waste of money. Then there is the sentimental idea; that the memorial should seek to radiate the thought of heroic sacrifice, something that should instantly arrest the attention of every beholder as something worthy of personal thought, followed by personal patriotic...
Rotary Fellowships are awarded to students who possess a good speaking knowledge of the language of the country in which they elect to study, a faculty for making friends, a "basic internationalmindedness, and an instinct for leadership...
...proposed new rules state that "the basic criterion is that the publication must be a Harvard student enterprise." The editors must be Harvard students, and policy control is "to be exercised in accordance with their free decisions." Magazines without "Harvard" in their titles do not have to be financed within the Harvard community, nor does a majority of their circulation have to be in Harvard...