Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eliot and Lowell. Mr. Conant reaffirms the ideal of a faculty distinguished in teaching and in research; but his policy will be shaped to meet a faculty that cannot realize this double ideal, and it will be shaped on an acceptance of the prior claims of research. For the growth of the tutorial system the question is a central one; if a class of able tutors is to be recruited and encouraged, the University must adjust its promotion criteria to give the mere teacher a place in the sun of academic life. It is true that Mr. Conant only expresses...
...Harvard, which would normally have operated to drive undergraduate expenses steadily lower, has been diverted, and will be diverted more in the future, to the task of arresting their advance. President Lowell was acutely sensible of this problem; throughout his policy was dictated by the necessity of keeping the growth of personal education, and its increasing costs, parallel with the advance in endowments...
...true that these two forces are not intellectually opposed, that a great increase in endowment revenue might even reconcile them in practice, and make possible the growth of Harvard's new and expensive educational instruments without limiting their extension. But it is best to reckon without a great increase in endowment revenue. Mr. Conant is choosing between two practical alternatives. Oxford and Cambridge, in following one path, have hampered their development along the other; the state universities of America, on the reverse of the medal, have faced educational difficulties of their own. Whether Harvard, armed with great endowments...
...indicating a growth of pro-Soviet sentiment, it has no such significance. It merely shows that we are getting away from provincialism and prejudices. As a nation, we deal with any country irrespective of its form of government. We shall continue in our own way, and Russia will continue in here...
...alcohol is being encouraged; not in the least. This moonshine, particularly as made in many of the Southern and Western States, is a genuine whiskey, with a character all its own. The type with which Castor and I are most familiar is the so-called "Leadville Moon," a subtle growth of the Rockies, dark in color, shimmering in the light of a candle with a glow almost not of this earth, giving a hint of powers unknown to the average mortal. Its taste is, to be sure, that of liquid fire; but it does not have burn of straight alcohol...