Word: concept
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Reflecting the official attitude is the explanation of Assistant Dean Philip Hofer, who stated, "The Business School is aware that the present development of aeronautical sciences because of the war means a new concept of post-war transportation. We feel that every phase of American economic life and world economy will be affected by this new factor. Our job is to train men to cope adequately with the problems which will inevitably develop. The projected air research and training program will do exactly that...
...Yale's undergraduates registered for the summer session (a bigger proportion than at other Ivy-League colleges), a deputy of President Charles Seymour announced to them: "We are following the military concept that students are only loaned to universities in order to prepare them better for duty with the armed forces and industry." Faculty war counselors promptly went into a huddle with each student, signed him to a specific course of war training. Some 75% of the students elected enlistment in the Army, Navy or Marine Reserves. The rest chose to prepare for war jobs in industry...
...Scripps-Howard) was the "most significant, fair and reliable" columnist. Today a majority of his fellows would still probably give Clapper the same award. The quality which wins him such tribute from his colleagues is his plainness, as man and writer, in articulating a plain man's concept of democratic government...
President Conant investigated the frontier condition of American society during the nineteenth century to clarify the concept of human liberty specific to this nation and passed on by tradition. "Those of our frontier were not concerned with the past. They were little bothered by tradition or custom; what stability and order they possessed came from the needs of the present, not from an inherited pattern...
Above all, don't get the idea that Freshmen are to be seen and not heard. That concept has never taken very deep root around the Square, and would be especially foolish now. None of the men around you, Faculty and undergraduates alike, has ever seen a term quite like this before, and most of them are just as much...