Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conduct remains a personal matter only as long as individuals accept the responsibility which this concept involves. When any large group of them fail to understand, consciously or unconsciously, that they must avoid inflicting useless suffering on others, the matter concerns the community in which they live...
...inkling of what the Araki Brothers may be up to by having their official spokesman boom: "If North China should send her silver to Nanking, the economic structure of North China would collapse, and Japan's attempt to build up the prosperity of this part of China would fail. North China silver must be kept in North China...
Even those who fail to appreciate him admit that Roy Harris has worked like one possessed. His first compositions were as crude as a schoolboy's but within three years he had written an Andante which was performed at the Philharmonic Stadium concerts. That was followed by a Guggenheim Fellowship which gave him two years' study in Paris. There he picked up sophisticated technique but he kept his drive and a bit of the ungainliness which he has never quite outgrown. Luck was with him when rich Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge sponsored his chamber music, when her imports...
...difficulties which lie in the path of such a policy. Its early stages depend on favorable H. A. A. budgets; its later stages depend on the active cooperation of alumni. But even an adequate fund will prove a useless boomerang if Harvard's traditional competitors, Yale and Princeton, fail to attack the vicious circle...
Second all men in the upper three groups of the rank list should automatically be retained, as well as all who wish to try for honors. But for men in the lower groups, especially those men who show no interest in tutorial and fail to do their assignments -- for these, the tutor's word should be the University's criterion in deciding whether or not they deserve the continued privilege of tutorial...