Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heartfelt thanks of the Weather Bureau to TIME for its excellent article on the September hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico [TIME, Oct. 6]. Besides being an accurate and representative report, this account does the Weather Bureau the important service (we hope) of telling potential victims of future storms what a hurricane warning may be talking about. Thanks to the help of the Red Cross and the Southern press and radio and police, we have made some progress with this kind of education; but it remains a continuing necessity...
Permit us at the same time to raise a meteorological eyebrow at your phrase "the Weather Bureau's . . dry warning...
...other strongly-supported theory which excused the removal of the Placement Bureau in the eyes of the Administration postulates that Harvard is an educational institution; better, then, to save $18,000 by ridding the budget of the expense of a Bureau alien to Harvard's proper function than to eliminate something intellectual with an equivalent cost...
...exploitation." For these men Harvard, with all its contacts in the business world, intends to do nothing toward smoothing their way into life careers. Professor Casner's office, which dispenses advice on opportunities in the armed forces and in some defense industries, in no way functions as an employment bureau. Most of the nation's large industries, and businesses-including those which produce for defense-have representatives whose sole duties are to contact promising college graduates. They have already begun to inquire when they can stop in at Harvard this year to interview prospects in the '42 crop of grads...
...future life. That ideal does not imply that every college should be a vocational training school. Harvard Faculty and students unitc in the conviction that a training in the liberal arts is the best way to develop character, intellect, and possibilities for future usefulness. Yet by abolishing the Placement Bureau, the Administration has done much to render the ideal of preparation irreconcilable with practice. The most important function of any Harvard graduates's life is his work, and no expense should be spared-much less $18,000 in rendering all possible aid in securing him not only...