Word: great
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately, the library is heavily biased in favor of the graduate student. And this bias springs from only one thing: Widener's tremendous size. It is this great hulk that is stifling to undergraduates. Among the four million volumes which comprise the Harvard Library, only one hundred thousand books interest them. Yet these very books in demand are hidden away among innumerable tomes which contain the last printed word on any subject. Graduate students have access to the book stacks; they have stalls placed right where the books they need are shelved; now there is even a bathroom...
Then, too, the great number of books in Widener requires a complicated catalogue. This unwieldy file is a great, black plague to the undergraduate. He is forced to wait a long while before the books he desires can be dug from the stacks. In other words, he, unlike the graduate student, cannot get the books he wants when he wants to. And since only advanced students and teachers can get stack permits, Widener's size, which is its blessing, has also proved to be its burden. Clearly the graduate student has the weighted side of the scales...
Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Pitt-innumerable others-touched the high places when they were much too young, according to our Constitution (which is soft in spots) to have been Presidents of the United States. At 32 Alexander Hamilton became the first and greatest of all Secretaries of the Treasury but was, of course, much too young and inexperienced to have been President. In this country men from 40 to 50, having failed at every venture, worm, shout and lie their way into Congress. Once there they will stop at no lie, slander, or debt wished upon posterity, if they think...
...week the President cited no visiting submarines, but he made submarine news of the first importance. By denying belligerent undersea boats right of entry to U. S. ports, save in dire emergency, he drew a significant distinction between prospective German raiders and the surface warships and armed merchantmen of Great Britain and France...
...decisions that will have to be made may not be as spectacular as the arms embargo repeal, but they will be of enormous cumulative effect. Negotiations with belligerents over our neutral rights, though they may be countless in number and picayune in detail, nevertheless set up precedents by which great decisions are made. It is essential that they be backed by a strong and consistent general policy. Likewise, the handling of our war trade with the belligerents is a herculcan job that may spell victory or defeat for our neutrality...