Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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True it is that the responsibilities created by such restricted endowments as the Nieman bequest and the Littauer grant have pointed the way to new and important educational projects. But these are definitely exceptions. As a general rule, the professional educators who constitute the university administration are the only truly capable authorities to decide the proper direction for experimentation and innovation. And if she is to remain in the van of the collegiate array, Harvard must have fluid funds to dispose of as she sees...
...legal compulsion, but a moral responsibility has Harvard to share her peerless facilities for dispensing knowledge with the general public. University Hall, realizing this, has boldly ventured into the field of adult education with such projects as the public distribution of the American History Reading List and the broadcast of significant faculty lectures...
...example of the Business School merits the respectful consideration of other graduate schools, as well as the college. If they are not able to duplicate such a plan, they should certainly strive in other ways to throw out more lines to the mainland which is the general public. By scattering intellectual seeds abroad, they can make a valuable contribution to the life of the nation. And, to argue on a lower plane, they may also heighten their own towers...
...Cambridge newstands over the weekend. The newest publication is entitled "College Years," of which the editor is Richard W. Weissman '38, and the Harvard editorial associate Malcolm E. Jenna '40. Articles on Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth, Pittsburgh, and several girls' colleges are interspersed with features about the youth movements and general phases of collegiate-ism. Grover Whalen, Aubrey Williams, and Brown president Henry Wriston are the leading authors...
Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace (Sun. 7 p. m. CBS) discusses What Should We Do About Our Surpluses? with General Hugh Johnson. Professor Lyman Bryson over a Washington hotel dinner table...