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Word: directed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...benevolent aristocracy may be the ideal form of government, provided the Olympian Elect can be found to direct it. But undoubtedly a situation where the older, more settled members of any department have a deciding voice in advancement and tenure provides a huge hole through which abuses may pour in. There is a possibility that the conscious or unconscious prejudices of the older members will determine their decisions, or that points of view not in agreement with theirs will be excluded so that the department becomes narrow and biased. The current Feild controversy is a case in point. There...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEMOCRATIC MANIFESTO | 3/7/1939 | See Source »

...first attack upon that fact was equally direct: "Is it not ... better to have a program of reform substantially completed than to have to look forward to important changes not begun? With the emphasis shifted from reform to recovery, this Administration is now determined to promote that recovery with all the vigor and power at its command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Restoration in Iowa | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Financial support of the organization is as yet uncertain, but President Conant has expressed interest in it and it is felt that the formation of the Faculty committee may eventually mean direct aid from the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Committee to Sponsor Radio Workshop's Experiments | 2/24/1939 | See Source »

Fairbank particularly emphasized the function of the intelligentsia in the Chinese social and political system. It is the college graduates who organize and direct all efforts to oppose the Japanese. It is in the colleges that Chinese nationalism is chiefly fostered, and hence it is at the universities that the Japanese have directed their first attacks. Through the preservation of the universities alone does China stand a real chance to throw off the Japanese yoke and salvage her own culture and independence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fairbank Discusses Crisis of Chinese Universities as Book Drive Starts | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

...Sherwood Rollins, Jr. '40 will be played by Ruby Newman's Orchestra on the opening night, March 22. Lerner collaborated on the script, said to be one of the best in Pudding history, with Morgan O. Preston '39, and J. David Lannon '39. Edward C. Lilley is scheduled to direct the musical while William Holbrook is in charge of dancing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hasty Pudding Show, "Fair Enough," Has Its Initial Rehearsals | 2/21/1939 | See Source »

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