Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yearly many students are doubtful as to which of several fields of study they are most fitted for-which they are most interested in, and in which they will achieve the best results-, and if the new plan succeeds in assisting these, it will have justified its own creation. Moreover, the eighty per cent quota for each department, not to be exceeded except insofar as would not increase its annual expenses, may bring about savings in the Tutorial System that will obviate any radical alterations. Unquestionably savings will be made, since the single factor that in the past caused increasing...
Advocating the creation of professors with roving commissions, whose teaching and creative work shall not be hampered by departmental considerations," President Conant yesterday submitted his annual report to the Board of Overseers...
...drones and sinecure holders in Vatican City are in for a thoroughgoing shakeup. Under the broad, benign mandate handed him by Pope Pius, Caesar-For-Six-Months Serafini will first proceed to create an Attorney General's office and a Bureau of Accounts-with all that the abrupt creation of those offices implies...
...unfortunate that this wealth of talent has been wasted on an unhappy choice of vehicle, but it must be admitted with all due respect to the dramatiser of Cyrano that "L'Aiglon" is a poor play. Restand may have believed that Napoleon's son offered the material for the creation of a modern Hamlet but he neglected to appreciate the difference between his skill and that of Mr. Shakespeare--a not inconsiderable difference. The pitiful sight of a weakly Napoleon II striving to regain the position which his father held is admittedly sad but it's not great drama...
...newspaperman. "The only philosophy," he says, which most members of the younger generation today can accept, "is one which is agnostic in its metaphysics, yet which stresses the faith of the human spirit in its own capabilities. It must be in short, a rational and purposeful philosophy, a creation of the human intelligence, a philosophy which, admitting all the limitations of the mortal mind, refuses to compromise with medieval superstitions and wishful self deceptions...