Word: branching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time in twenty years Harvard. Yale and Princeton are without any representation in the executive branch of the government. But these three institutions have provided the last three presidents in the order named, so that that they may be said to have done their share. Somebody may rise to remark that no one of these Presidents was a typical product of his alma mater which is probably true at least in the sense that the public imagination attributes characteristics to these three institutions which their representatives in the White House did not display...
...powers reside with these two bodies, actual control over ordinary matters of administration and discipline devolve upon the various Faculties. Most of the actual conduct of this work in delegate by the Faculty to a committee of its members, the Administrative Board: Each Faculty has charge of a particular branch of teaching in the University: Harvard College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are together enrolled by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Payment toward their tuition fee is collected by the Bursar,--one of the Treasurer's representatives in Cambridge...
...Devotional Address by David R. Porter, Secretary of the Students' Branch...
Dean Edsall of the Medical School in his annual report stresses the deplorable lack of men interested in the scientific and experimental branch of medicine. In pursuing the practical applications of the science one is likely to lose sight of the fact that future progress in medicine is to a great extent dependent upon research work in the laboratory. In establishing the degree of Doctor of Medical Science, however, the faculty show that they are now fully alive to the necessity of stimulating interest in this vital aspect of the profession. And yet, the offering of a degree...
Sudden withdrawal of governmental support is not the way to aid an experiment undoubtedly destined to be a recognized branch of the Postoffice Department. Particularly at this moment, when invaluable experience is being gained not only for the mail service but for the aviators who would be trained pilots in case of war, is such a retrogressive policy to be condemned. The time is appropriate, not for a cry of "unjustifiable expenditure," but for renewed impetus to a most important form of our national progress...