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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near the end of a year replete with such academic controversies as teaching vs research, tutoring vs daily work, Walsh-Sweezy-Feild vs permanent tenure and appointments, it is fitting that the Student Council should blossom forth with a report on Education at Harvard. One cannot but feel, as long...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DISPUTED "AREAS" | 5/31/1939 | See Source »

Such recommendations are impressive. Something is indeed happening to education. The old system is not clicking so well. There are a dozen indications of Faculty, student, and graduate unrest, chiefly caused by the realization that college is no longer doing the job it once did, or might still do under...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DISPUTED "AREAS" | 5/31/1939 | See Source »

Frequently he goes to Manhattan, tearing up the highway at breakneck speed with his mother sitting unruffled beside him. But never does he go by airplane. Few years ago only stockholders in the company were Martin and Motorman Louis Chevrolet. But in 1934, with funds needed for expansion, 325,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Kites to Bombers | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Spontaneously they applauded Romains when he said: "We are no longer able to act as if tyranny did not exist. Therefore, we must act in order that it shall not exist. In this struggle, every day more urgent, no one can exactly take our place." Solemnly they heard him call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Men of Good Will | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

On lecture tours in Maine (the arctic villages made him imagine he was exiled to Siberia), out in the frontier West, Emerson all but forgot the Concord saints. The men in the Maine train he found "independent, with sufficient manners and more manly force than most of the scholars he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Waldo | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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