Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...known that for the first two years the money will be available from "other sources." The strategy of the move is clear. The plan is being started on a shoostring with no assurance of where the money is coming from to continue it and to expand it eventually to provide some forty such large fellowships for every class. The President is relying upon some unknown Harkness to come forward with the necessary funds to insure the success of a hold and original experiment...
Wrote he: "According to the account written nearly 300 years ago, Harvard was founded 'to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity.' ... In the last analysis, it is only by advancing learning that it is possible to perpetuate it. When knowledge ceases to expand and develop it becomes devitalized, degraded, and a matter of little importance to the community. ... A zest for intellectual adventure should be the characteristic of every university...
...advice to the President and Congress was to: 1) encourage the initiative of private management "at least until it is shown that this cannot be relied upon"; 2) relieve the railroads from the operation of all Federal and state anti-trust laws; 3) continue and expand a liberal government lending policy until private capital can be obtained; 4) reorganize the 44,000 mi. of railroad now in receivership or bankruptcy with a sharp reduction in their fixed charges; 5) enact legislation for the I. C. C. to compel consolidations; 6) revise the clause in the Emergency Transportation Act limiting...
Proudly he announced that the Federal Radio Commission had approved RCA's application to expand its domestic radio system, which has hitherto been confined to a transcontinental circuit between Manhattan and San Francisco. In Chicago, Washington, New Orleans and Boston RCA will erect stations to compete directly with the telegraph companies. And between Manhattan and Philadelphia it will start the first domestic radio facsimile service in the U. S. If successful, RCA hopes to expand this type of service throughout the U. S. Such a move would put RCA in a strategic bargaining position for the huge communications merger...
Learning must be advanced as well as perpetuated. Indeed, in the last analysis it is only by advancing learning that it is possible to perpetuate it. When knowledge ceases to expand and develop, it becomes devitalized, degraded, and a matter of little importance to the present or future. The community loses interest, and the youth of the country responds to other challenges. Able young men enlist in an enterprise only if they are persuaded that they, too, may contribute by creative work. A zest for intellectual adventure should be the characteristic of every university. In the future...