Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still-youthful President Robert Maynard Hutchins, 38, the most characteristic feature of the modern world is bewilderment. This bewilderment he would attack with a return to reason. To him the university is the place of all places to grapple with those fundamental principles which rational thought seeks to establish. Too much of education, he says, is based on the false notion that education is a substitute, instead of a preparation, for experience. Of legal education he says: "To tell a law student that the law is what the courts will do and have him reach his conclusions on this point...
South, West and East, the big divisions of U. S. railroading. He was therefore far and away the most logical man to go to Washington as A.A.R.'s president in 1934. It did not take him long to establish headquarters on 17th & H Streets. It is full of cheap, golden oak desks and big wall calendars and the unmistakable fumigant which characterizes railroad offices from the Bangor & Aroostook to the Alaska Railroad. President Pelley's own quarters are decorated with an illuminated testimonial from New Haven employes which he prizes highly. "You can always fool the guys above...
...Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corp., makers of parts for Ford and others, was settled with an agreement to boost minimum wages from 50^ to 65^ an hour. In Pittsburgh the gS-day strike of Pittsburgh Plate Glass workers was settled with an agreement to boost wages 8/ an hour, establish a minimum wage of 63^ an hour. Libbey-Owens-Ford glass workers on strike for five weeks again failed to make a settlement, but it seemed that glass-labor troubles would soon be over. More important to Mr. Lewis than the wage increases thus won was the settle-ment of these...
...English is not quite respectable and nowheres near par with the other sides of the language, the arrangements for courses in speaking are farcical, tending to discourage the students. The three half courses, for only one of which is credit given, are the minimum the Department thinks it can establish without starting an open revolt. Professor Packard has built the nucleus of an adequate series of courses, and what is now needed is official sympathy and recognition by University Hall of the potentialities of the subject...
Paradoxically enough it was with considerable satisfaction that we received this morning's communication from the Princeton athletic authorities announcing that they, along with the six other proposed members of the Ivy Football League, did feel ready to establish a definite and formal organization at this time...