Word: great
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the 1920's when money was easy and the University's budgets were expanding, a great many young men were taken on the faculty. It was not then calculated how much money it would cost were the University to accommodate the enlarged permanent staff which would result if all these men were promoted. This increase was then possible because of the financial situation, which was very favorable...
...YOUR OCT. 23 ISSUE TIME CALLS ROGER BABSON VENERABLE. THIS WILL MAKE OUR GREAT AND GOOD PATRON ANGRY FOR WEBSTER'S SAYS THE USE OF THE WORD VENERABLE GENERALLY IMPLIES ADVANCED AGE. MR. BABSON IS ONLY 64 AND IF YOU COULD SEE HIM RIDE WITH US WEBBER GIRLS YOU WOULD NOT CALL HIM VENERABLE. IF YOUR EDITORS USED VENERABLE IN THE SENSE OF BEING RENDERED SACRED BY RELIGIOUS HISTORIC OR OTHER ASSOCIATIONS WE WILL GLADLY WITHDRAW OUR OBJECTION FOR MR. BABSON's LIFELONG INTERESTS AND GOLDEN RULE PHILOSOPHY CERTAINLY ENTITLE HIM TO QUALIFY UNDER THIS LATTER ETYMOLOGY...
...hope and pray that America will not come into the war: that it will not be necessary for her actively and under arms, to help the cause of democracy. You will, by remaining a great and friendly neutral do more to preserve the spirit of democracy, and do more to help the world to mend itself after the present trouble is over, if you yourselves remain untainted by the febrile emergencies of war making...
When Harvard was expanding rapidly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it needed many famous scholars to attract a student clientele; it was a young university. Now its position is more firmly established. Now a minimum of great names is needed to maintain its place in the sun. What is needed, however, to improve the second and now more important source of its greatness is a greater emphasis on teaching in order to train the embryo "great names" of the future...
...soldier in war is so surrounded with a blanket of discipline, fatigue, propaganda, and lack of knowledge of the events, that his great bravery becomes somewhat of a second nature. The person who stands out now against the call of bearing war drums for American involvement in this European war also deserves great credit for bravery. Just in the past year or so has America for given those who stood against entry into the last war. Here and there a professor who was flared as "yellow" or a "traitor" between 1916-1918 is now being rehired. In the last year...