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Word: beste (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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HARVARD--Johns filed out to Stevens in deep left field. Gannett best out an infield tap to Besse at third base and stole second after Grondahl had looked at a third strike. Lupien lifted a high pop foul to Besse behind third base. One hit, no runs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How the Crimson Beat Yale Yesterday | 6/22/1939 | See Source »

While more attention is daily being paid to the student's physical comfort, less fruitful concern seems to center on his intellectual stimulation. A tutorial system is provided but the best tutors receive little recognition for their proficiency in this work; additional neophytes are added as section men for the ever growing social science courses, but the men on whom the real teaching burden rests are fired; this year ten assistant professors have been released. Harvard's administrators have provided a tentative and incomplete blueprint for a new educational structure but have failed to conserve the vital energies which alone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR THE ALUMNI | 6/22/1939 | See Source »

...page fantasy by a 28-year-old Englishman who works for a London printing firm, flies a plane, likes good food and wine, fast horses and cars. His first published novel, The Wings of the Morning, tells of a medical genius who becomes equally famed as a best-selling satirist. When his young wife, a beautiful Communist, is killed in an accident, the doctor retires snarling to a cottage, makes friends with a philosopher-cop, gets mixed up in the strange suicide of an egomaniac artist, who personifies nihilism, Fascism, middle-class decline, spiritual corruption. Next the doctor founds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fantastic First | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...other hand", he warned, "a study of the past should remind us of the fallibility of all human judgements, even those of the best informed. What appear to be clear-cut issues to one generation may seem nebulous uncertainties to their descendants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Asks 1939 to 'Neglect Tumult of Moment,' Preserve Individuality, in Baccalaureate Sermon | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Surely the first requisite of wise administration in a University is the avoidance of needless frictions and serious mistakes by a regular practice of consulting, as a group, those who are best qualified to form and express an opinion. The legalistic iteration that in matters of personnel a department acts only "as an informal group to whom the administration has turned for advice" is satisfactory neither as an interpretation of the carefully defined provisions of your report nor as an assurance that its potentialities for clarity and harmony will be realized...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excarpts From Open Letter to Committee of Eight | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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