Word: directed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...describe the battle of Irun to Columbia's listeners -with sound effects by the combatants. The effects began soon after my microphone was installed between a haystack and a cornfield and with them came incessant shot & shell. The rapidly shifting fighting front had placed my haystack in direct line of rebel fire. Bullets sang overhead, pished into the haystack, and swished through the corn. It was impossible to move. Then I thought of TIME. For six hours, with an occasional break to survey fighting, fix my glasses on a bombing plane, or consult the French radio operator established behind...
...could be got last week for the story that the populace had crucified five monks and burned nuns alive. In fact last week largely was devoted to debunking Irun's more fantastic Red & White atrocity yarns. Meanwhile in nearby San Sebastian, next objective of a White Army under direct command of General Emilio Mola, there actually appeared a number of Spaniards who had not gone hog wild-Basques...
...truce. General Mola ceased fire for 48 hours, then sent an ultimatum that citizens had 48 hours to clear out of San Sebastian before the Whites advanced. Up to the very last hour it was touch & go whether the Basques and Ortega could keep the Anarchist pyromaniacs from "Direct Action." Finally, in a moderately humane battle, the Whites under General Mola went crashing victoriously along with their trucks and coughing machine guns, entered San Sebastian virtually unresisted. The Anarchists fled back up the coast to Bilbao, announced: "Rather than surrender Bilbao we shall burn it to the last empty...
...ideals which are indeed eternal. But the real past which we salute is but yesterday. Harvard, together with all the other universities in this country, stands just beyond the threshold of a new understanding. It is towards the future of our common enterprise that on this occasion we must direct our guze...
...special used professional faculties by men of riper age . . . This was the theory of the university in the Middle Ages and the design of the collegiate foundations in their origin. Time and circumstances have brought about a total change. The colleges no longer promote the researches of science, or direct professional study . . . Elementary teaching of youths under twenty-two is now the only function performed by the university, and almost the only object of college endowments. Colleges were homes for the life-study of the highest and most abstruse parts of knowledge. They, have become boarding schools in which...