Word: establisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vast liquidation and readjustments have left us with a large degree of credit paralysis. If we can put our financial resources to work, I am confident we can make a large measure of recovery independent of the rest of the world. . . . Our first step toward recovery is to re-establish confidence. We must put some steel beams in the foundation of our credit structure...
...that in a university of some size personal contact with instructors is impossible. This is, to a large extent, true. The intimacy between the teachers and the taught that is bred in a small college is one of its most priceless advantages, while it is well nigh impossible to establish any friendly acquaintanceship at an institution such as Harvard save by some artificial stimulus...
...steer our educational course" President Hoover two years ago appointed the National Advisory Committee on Education. Chief question to be mulled over was whether to revive (not, as many people think, create) the Federal Department of Education which existed briefly after Congressman James Abram Garfield (see col. 3) helped establish it in 1867. Under Director Charles Riborg Mann of the American Council on Education and President Henry Suzzallo of the Carnegie Foundation, 52 savants labored and brought forth last fortnight a bulky report...
...fall the "Princetonian" commented editorially on the educational experiment of a Syracuse professor, who has abolished note-taking during his lectures and substituted a printed resume of his course for distribution among the students taking it. At that time we reviewed the lecture situation at Princeton and sought to establish the desirability of such a reform as that initiated by Professor Vaughan. It was our contention that the ideal of the Princeton lecture-precept system was to develop the student's faculty of interpreting and associating the basic text-book data of a course, that this ideal was not being...
Furthermore the visits may be taken to indicate that for the closely-knit world of the present day the ordinary machinery of diplomacy is not able to deal adequately with the actual problems presented. It is necessary to establish closer relations between the executive heads of States than can be furnished through the usual channels of diplomatic intercourse. For the Great Powers, other than the United States and the U.S.S.R., and in general for the members of the League, such closer relations are created and maintained through the instrumentality of the League, where the heads of States regularly get together...