Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slumped in a front-row black-leather seat in the House last week, chin cupped in hand, listening to a pale, grave, calm President (see p. 11), possible attacks on that aggressive defense went through his mind. By week's end one thing was clear about the isolationist strategy: the old bogey of the House of Morgan was to be hung like an albatross around Franklin Roosevelt's neck...
...time when most of Harvard was dazed by the sudden ending of the tenure of ten popular assistant professors, Professor Burbank's resignation last spring as chairman of the Economics department lent itself too easily to interpretation as a protest against the Administration's tenure policy. It is now clear as Professor Burbank says, that this was "an unjustified assumption." Professor Burbank, besides carrying one of the heaviest teaching loads in his department, has been the able administrator not only of the department but of its Board of Tutors and its large introductory course. The Crimson regrets that...
Pointing to the burden of his administrative and teaching work, Professor Burbank yesterday said, "The facts are perfectly clear." He termed the CRIMSON'S explanation of his resignation a "completely unjustified assumption...
...Hicks, for one, refused to live in this neat and fanciful little fabrication. While the points of his disagreement are not yet fully known, this much is clear. He refused to crawl before the "bear that walks like a snake" simply because Party rules bade him do so. He refused to prostitute his intellect to Party discipline when every ounce of reason cried otherwise...
Throughout his discussion Mr. Ross assumes that responsibility for Harvard's appointment policy rests upon President Conant alone. The assumption seems to be correct. It is clear at least that this policy differs at many points both in spirit and in method from that suggested in the report of the Committee of Nine. Though it is true that President Conant may find partial support in the Committee's recommendations, any insistence upon citations from the report can only make clearer that however admirable in substance, it was in form and in timing a political blunder of the first magnitude. Looking...