Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was a time when Spring brought much furore into Cambridge, and first year men sat up until late on the first warm nights, afraid to decide, afraid to reach the conclusion that would make or mar their lives forever. Today the Central Committee, functioning with well-oiled precision on the inexhaustible fuel of noble ideas, has done much to mitigate the seriousness of one of the most pressing of annual Freshman problems--choosing a House...
...Eliot Court". The best, however, he believed, would be the "Dunster Chimneys". Those chimneys that create our skylne have a greater significance than most people notice. They mean fire-places. There are less than half a dozen rooms in the House without fire-places, despite the never falling central heating system, and about them on long winter evenings the flow of good ale is mixed with the flow of equally good conversation...
...never did. After high school he taught until he had some money saved, then went off to study engineering at the College of Wooster and Ohio Northern University. Up, up, up the industrial ladder he climbed-vice president & general manager of United Alloy Co. at 36, president of Central Alloy Steel Corp. soon thereafter, executive vice president of Republic Steel at 40. Finally, at 45, the boy from Pigeon Run became president of Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., biggest steel-producing unit in the world, biggest subsidiary of colossal U. S. Steel Corp...
...central question is "how long before some administration will 'pack' the Court to affect decisions on the issue of liberty itself," it is obviously not only his right but his duty to speak. If, however, the implications are not as broad as this, he may rather be doing free education a disservice and banking the fires of intolerance. The Roosevelt measure will have far reaching effect, but many will deny that it can be considered primarily as a threat to the educational principles for which President Conant and Harvard stand. The result of entering the political lists when the institution...
...Americans, his pictures of New York are especially attractive. "Brooklyn Bridge" and "Central Park", are painted in an intense, restless manner. Like most of the German painters, Kleinschmidt is subjective and emotional in his approach to nature...