Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These are all relatively unimportant, however, for there is one phase of Harvard on which money must be spent if the University is to retain its prestige, and it must be spent at once--to build up and maintain the faculty. If constant effort is not made to attract great teachers and scholars, if constant opportunities are not provided the teachers and scholars already at Harvard, the faculty must of necessity deteriorate. Many have felt, and not without some reason, that over the past decade too much attention has been given the problem of building up the physical side...
...boast superiority to Harvard in one, two, or three departments is large and growing larger. Great teachers, not fine architecture, are still the prime requisites of a great university. This is no hysterical cry that Harvard is a "hollow shell" of its former educational self, but a plea for constant, earnest effort to improve, enlarge, and maintain the group of men on whose shoulders must chiefly rest the burden of upholding Harvard's name. To no better advantage could the University put Mr. Wyeth's bequest...
...season spent in playing intramural games, with a single contest with Yale as its climax, would be both dull and, for some time to come, impossible, still, some motion in that direction is desirable. Harvard can, better than most colleges, afford to do without the income that is a constant excuse for foot ball emphasis. It can continue to refuse an enlarged Stadium to be used as a whole on one afternoon in two years. It can instill in the present college generation, the embryo count, a sane ideal of athletics that will influence strongly public opinion in the future...
More than mere factors the mathematician asks for constant factors. There are not many fundamental ones of them known in the universe. By definition man has taken as standards the atomic weight of oxygen, the length of a meter, the weight of a cubic centimeter of water, and four other items. From observation he has figured very closely the velocity of light, the drag of gravity, absolute zero (459.4 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit) and six others. By deduction there are seven derived constants, like the mass of the hydrogen atom, or of the electron. Then there are six experimental constants...
...meeting was concluded by a visit to the General Electric plant in West Lynn to see the work being performed there in the making of fused quartz mirrors, an innovation in the manufacture of telescopes. A constant problem in astronomy is how to make bigger and better mirrors for the telescopes. Glass, which has long been used for the smaller mirrors, is almost out of the question for a really large project. The reason for this is that the surface curvature of these reflectors must be correct down to a fraction somewhere between a quarter to a half millionth...