Word: information
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When President Conant first speaks to the man who is to be his successor at Harvard, he may very well repeat the words he wrote in his last report on the University; "...to inform the potential applicants in far away communities about Harvard College is one of the urgent tasks that lie ahead...
Congressional Relations. Seldom before had a President so specifically recognized the legislative branch's coequal part in the Government. Democrats-and many Republicans-read every early political bobble of the Eisenhower Administration (e.g., the failure to inform members of Congress on appointments) as a sign of civil war between Ike and Congress. But House and Senate G.O.P. leadership patiently tolerated the bobbles, and helped Ike fix his system of liaison. When Congress began warming up to a reorganization bill which the President did not like, Eisenhower-without any public cries of alarm-sent clear word on what he wanted...
...have no desire to refute these conclusions. They reflect less on Mr. Morrison than on the reviewer, as anyone who knows Mr. Morrison will understand. I should imagine, though, that if Mr. Morrison actually believes that the college newspaper in his own novel "gleefully wants to embarrass rather than inform"--another curious charge, in the making of which your reviewer seems to have concluded that the shoe which he has come upon fits him--your review would be likely to convince him of the applicability of that belief to college newspapers in general...
Just as he assumes the "Register" gleefully wants to embarrass rather that to inform, Mr. Morrison implies that students in a classroom are not primarily concerned with learning; instead they face their instructors maliciously, much like a mob that needs skillful handling...
This committee will inform the Corporation of faculty opinion and sentiment throughout the probes, and is expected to have a vital part in deciding Corporation policy if professors refuse to testify and are cited for contempt...