Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solemn festival draws to its close. For a few minutes we linger still to interchange our mutual sentiments and feelings, and then to part until the 300th anniversary summons the sons of Harvard to unite on a similar occasion. A few may expect to see that distant day, but most of us know that for us it is impossible. But whether we join in it or not, those who shall commemorate are to be our brethren, united by that bond of fraternity whose mystic cords draw together all who have drunk at this fountain. Their voices as our own, when...
...have taxed locally people of the City of New York to meet the current expense of unemployment.* I don't wish any other Mayor to do it if he wishes to stay in office. It has got to be done some way or another. We don't expect the local government to do it all. . . . We have developed a new kind of officeholder -'the semicolon boys...
...departments of Psychology, Government, and Education, was financed by the committee this past year. Other joint applications were presented to the committee and approved for the next fiscal year. It is apparent that interest in joint research in the social sciences is growing and that the committee may expect such projects to form a growing proportion of its budget in future years...
...upperclassmen, who wish to try out for the spring debates (expect the Yale, Princeton debate and the spring trip) will report Tuesday, December 10, at a place to be announced later with a five minute speech prepared on either side of one of the following questions: "Resolved, that the Agricultural Adjustment Administration has served the best interests of the American farmer" or "Resolved, that the Social Security Legislation of the last Congress is detrimental to the best interests of the American people." There will be separate trials for the spring trip and the triangular debate on February 27 and April...
These two projects, long dear to the heart of President Conant, are now fully formulated, and can be pursued with especial vigor. The two ideas, part of an all-embracing determination to make Harvard preeminent, are due to the vigorous educational leadership that we have come to expect of President Conant. The central plan, of increased usefulness, and the methods of attainment will everywhere kindle the imagination of laymen as well as educators. The announcement of the creation of this fund as part of the Tercentenary program is extremely appropriate. The Tercentenary takes on new meaning; it will...