Word: council
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near the end of a year replete with such academic controversies as teaching vs research, tutoring vs daily work, Walsh-Sweezy-Feild vs permanent tenure and appointments, it is fitting that the Student Council should blossom forth with a report on Education at Harvard. One cannot but feel, as long as there are already so many whited sepulchres elbowing one another in obvious scholastic and social discomfort in this friendly-or-feudal community, that maybe the Council has hit upon the whole root of the evil--for if Harvard is not essentially designed for education, three centuries of Faculty...
...Ingersoll, Ont., scores of residents signed a petition: "We, the undersigned, are in favor of hanging the town council...
...delegates of 54 nationalities to the Council of Nationalities. Ukraine, Uzbek on the Afghanistan border, Turkmen on the Caspian, Armenian, Georgian, six other "constituent republics" sent 25 each. Tatars from the Volga, Karelians from the swampy North, Buriat-Mongolians from the shores of Lake Baikal, Moldavians from the southwestern borders of the Ukraine, 18 other "autonomous republics" sent eleven each, while 45 came from nine regions and twelve from national districts like Komi, Chukotsk in the Arctic...
Since 1935 a group of men and women in Washington has solemnly pondered the U. S. Youth Problem. This group (16 eminent persons headed by Owen D. Young) is the American Council on Education's American Youth Commission. It has spent its four years mainly in gathering facts and issuing reports such as its famed Youth Tell Their Story (TIME, June 6) on Youth's education, jobs, play, health, morals, mental attitude. Disheartened by such facts as an average two-year gap between school and job, the Commission has lately found fresh food for worry: increasing conflict between...
...EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUTH-Newton Edwards-American Council on Education, Washington...