Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the increased number of men out for honors and the growth of the tutorial system drastic changes have had to be made. It is possible to come out for the CRIMSON and held a high scholastic standing. To prove this it is only necessary to cite the case of a man still in college who, after successfully completing eight weeks of competition, was awarded the Whitaker scholarship, given annually to the Freshman "who shows the most outstanding scholastic ability and intellectual promise as indicated by distinction in studies". Another competitor was able to make the board and also become...
Except for the Federalist squeeze of 1800, all changes in the Court's size up to the end of the Civil War were honestly motivated by the growth of Court business. But in 1866 a Congress bent on punishing the South cut Court membership to eight solely to keep merciful President Andrew Johnson from appointing new Justices who might help to nullify the vengeful Reconstruction Acts. Two years later, with Congress still fearful of the surviving Court, the recurrent plan to curb it by requiring a two-thirds decision against Congressional measures got past the House, but died...
...Deal's erstwhile Coordinator of Transportation. Skeptical about private ownership as he is, nevertheless he told the Boston Chamber of Commerce last fortnight: "It is hard to be cold about the transportation situation today, because it is full of vitality and fascination and in a period of rapid growth and change which excites the keenest interest." For a time, the Commissioner continued, the railroads had shown serious symptoms of "incipient senility." But "the advantage which an industry has over an individual is that it can be born again. That'is what I think is happening to the railroads...
...standard of scholarship at Harvard over the past twenty years. For twenty years ago the general divisional examinations were set up as part and parcel of the undergraduate curriculum, substituting for the old course and point plan. Under the stimulus of this comprehensive system, and goaded further by the growth of tutorial work and of the Houses, the number of honors men in the college has doubled, and many more people are enjoying study of advanced calibre than ever before...
...evolution of justice in the U. S. which the 54th Attorney General now recounts in a readable book entitled Federal Justice published currently.* Collaborator with Homer Stille Cummings in the presentation of the story of the Department of Justice and the Attorneys General, which mirrors the nation's growth, was a smart special assistant named Carl McFarland. Attesting the thoroughness of Justice Department researchers are 1,529 references in the 558 pages...