Word: furtherance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"I am firmly convinced that the ambitious, imaginative student whose college education has been interrupted by two, three, or perhaps even five years of war will be sorely tempted to forego further study and get established in a job. The evidence from letters of inquiry received daily here and in...
President Conant noted a particularly difficult situation in the graduate schools of arts and sciences in the country, since recruiting of outstanding men for advanced training in the humanities, physical sciences and social sciences has always been more difficult than in the case of law, medicine, and business. The condition...
Other educators than Presidents Conant of Harvard and Hutchins of Chicago were less pessimistic and critical in regarding the GI Bill of Rights. President Daniel L. Marsh, speaking at Boston University commencement exercises on Saturday, called the Bill "one of the finest and most constructive pieces of social legislation ever...
Argentina's reaction was immediate. Her Government announced that it would not participate in further meetings of the Pan American Union so long as it continued to "disregard Argentine rights." Neither would it send a voteless, unequal delegate to the Mexico City conference. "Argentina," said a spokesman, "does not...
Because human nature is inevitably low, says Ruml, the Federal Government must protect the public from business excesses, by exercising certain minimum controls. In turn, business can do much to head off further regulation by increasing the freedom of those it governs-stockholders, employes, customers and consumers. He suggests one...