Word: desideratum
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Higher costs of living in the Houses, together with depression-struck family incomes have made the University desideratum of including men of all financial means an end still more difficult to achieve. Scholarships and aids, it is well known, are not yet large enough to enable the poor student to look forward with assurance to a Harvard education. With conditions as they are, more jobs are needed to enable students to remain in college; this need could be met in part by, the introduction of student waiters into the Houses...
...dozen possible sites were examined by the Harvard astronomers during the past six months, but the Oak Ridge station has proved to be superior to any other in Eastern Massachusetts. The land comprises more than thirty acres of woodland, the woods being a desideratum in providing a protection against wind, dust, and stray light from neighboring villages, farmhouses, and highways. It was given to the University by Mr. and Mrs. Alfred C. Fuller of Belmont...
Facts are that last January the Reichsbank lowered its rate from 7% to 63%, "for the purpose of stimulating German trade." That desideratum was not attained. Instead the attraction of abnormally high money rates in Manhattan and other foreign capitals operated to deplete seriously the Reichsbank's gold reserve. The only possible counter-move was to raise the rate last week, and in Manhattan it had been anticipated for some weeks that Dr. Schacht would, nay must, take this step.* In Paris, however, angry editors rose above common sense, charged that the lowering of the rate last January...
...ought they most justifiably fall than upon the college graduate especially in a time like the present when faith in democracy as a form of political organization is apparently waning, not in dictator governed countries like Italy, Spain, Greece and Russia, but apparently in our own country. However, this desideratum will not be attained until a more serious spirit animates the life of the college and more generous attention is given to the serious problems of the political, social and economic organization of society...
...electing Dr. Lowell's successor. Dolopathos concluded that a majority would fall in behind President Lowell in favor of a man "1) intellectually 'safe' and 2) financially capable. ... 1) a Harvard graduate, 2) socially presentable, 3) between 30 and 40 years old. . . . It would be a desideratum of course that he possess an independent competence." Financial capacity was explained: "Not ... a mere knack of handling the funds. ... A well-spoken speech may net only ten, where a word in the right ear will net a hundred thousand dollars or a new gymnasium." Intellectual "safety" was defined...