Word: general
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Gabriel is the general editor of the impressive Pageant of America series issued by the Yale University Press in fifteen volumes. He compiled two of the volumes in the series himself, "Toilers of Land and Sea" and "The Rise of the Frontier," and also is the author of "The Evolution of Long Island" among other works in the field of American History...
This statement seems to imply that the Department of the Classics is somewhat of a laggard in the attempt to combine its own field with other related fields in a general program of humanism. The exact opposite is the truth. The first combined field of the sort described was not History and Literature but "Literature," in which either Greek or Latin is combined with some Modern Language. This plan was initiated by members of the Departments of the Classics and Modern Languages in 1903, History and Literature following in 1906. I happened to be a member of both committees...
...Members of the House Committee will be available during these hours to talk informally with candidates who may wish to discuss general House activities...
...seems to me that such criticism of collegiate functions and activities has been entirely too much overdone at Harvard. We are normal individuals, not prepossessed of a superior or supercilious attitude toward the antics of our fellow students of other schools in general. WE are neither children to follow the rowdy trend, nor prematurely old, to withdraw completely. The Harvard group may be heterogeneous, and we are proud of it and attempt to become more representative of the U.S., but anyone of us might have fitted into the so called "Joe College" life at Cornell or Pennsylvania, for example. There...
WASHINGTON--Secretaries Hall and Morgenthan, after conferring with President Roosevelt, reflect four of general war unless Nazi-Fascist threats to world economic structure are curbed. Sen. Byrnes reveals plan to dispose of surplus farm stocks abroad through barter system designed to give U.S. huge war supplies...