Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dilettanti," a two act farce by Thomas Love Peacock, to be presented by members of Kirkland House about Thanksgiving, it was announced at the meeting, will be held tonight at seven o'clock in the Senior Common Room. Huntington Brown '22, tutor in the Department of English, will direct the play...
...Clubs are coached by professionals, but otherwise entirely run by its undergraduate officers. The University has no direct connection with the running of the Clubs, so that almost unlimited opportunities are offered to every man to show his own initiative and reliability, especially is this true in the case of the managerial candidates...
...upon such youths that the security of the world depends. Today they are the material that feeds cannons, in a few years they will be the leaders of business and government in their respective countries, men of influence, who direct internal affairs and foreign policies. When men who occupy these positions of leadership have a broad view of the world, understanding for and friendship with other nations, international problems may be dealt with more rationally and for the greater welfare of those involved...
...President's categorical justification of his program was the obvious fact that business is better and unemployment is less than in the dark days of March, 1932. He directly ignored the natural conservative reply that this improvement might have been self-operative, or at least not a direct product of the New Deal. But he made an oblique, though impressive reference to this point of view in citing the example of England's present recovery, which is sometimes alleged to be the product of simply muddling through the depression, and not a product of radical measures. Mr. Roosevelt called attention...
...speech was probably the most able and certainly the most direct and challenging that the President has yet made over the radio since he took office. But like all speeches concerning a matter so controversial as the New Deal, it gave aid and comfort to sympathizers, disposed with proper scorn of those whose objections are based on more Old Guardism, and failed to answer the sound objections of those who agree with Mr. Roosevelt that something has had to be done, but disagree with his solution...