Word: directed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Littauer Center, to carry forth into the world the results of their research. For as Dean Williams has said, the emphasis of the School will be upon investigation and research rather than upon formal instruction. Through the agency of the Littauer Center, a distinct attempt is being made to direct work in the social sciences at Harvard more effectively towards the larger problems of policy and administration with which our government is confronted...
there is not a sentence to guide the reader in interpreting it; there is not a single direct statement of what it is about, where its action takes place, what, in the simplest sense, it means...
When Chicago held its fair, the whole city was steamed up-not only the concessionaires and tradesmen, direct beneficiaries, but citizens whose enthusiasm was born of civic pride. The anomaly of the New York fair is that most New Yorkers have been genuinely bored with it. For the cosmopolitan conglomeration that is New York City has less civic interest, is less given to boosterism, than any place in the country. The sole reason New York has a fair, let alone the biggest in history, is that a small, hardheaded group high-pressured the city, the nation and most of Europe...
...while almost wholly neglecting another. I refer to your long editorial on faculty responsibility. How is it so little has been said of the responsibility of the student? If, then, the following remarks seem critical of your work as performed thus far, I hope they will also serve to direct the attack from a broader base than has apparently been visualized to date...
...Sarles Durstine had already been a newspaperman, publicity man for the Bull Moose campaign and an advertising agent when he helped direct a campaign that raised $150,000,000 to aid U. S. soldiers. His helpers in that Wartime drive were a Buffalo charity man named Alex F. Osborn and Bruce Barton, who had once written advertising copy for Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf. In 1919 Durstine and Barton started an advertising agency, took in Osborn a few months later. Three harddriving, ambitious men, Barton, Durstine & Osborn turned the advertising business upside down during the 1920s...