Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...courses offered at Harvard in military and naval science are a legacy from the post-war days, when all of us, from William Roscoe Thayer down, were far more convinced of the efficacy of war as a social instrument than we are now. They have followed the trend of the times; originally a pleasant path to a course credit, they have stiffened their requirements, placed more emphasis on the really scientific features of their field, and are now as difficult as the run of courses in the college. This, coupled with the fact that the treat is on the government...
...Graaff knew, moreover, that a vitally important part of his huge contraption, as a scientific instrument, was a 40-ft.-long vacuum tube made of laminated paper. Still unfinished and untested last week, this tube is to bridge the gap between the balls, serve as a channel for the 10,000,000 volts which Dr. Van de Graaff expects to produce. At one end of the tube swarms of protons will be released. The high voltage will whip these particles down the tube against a target at the other end. Dr. Van de Graaff hopes that these bullets will disrupt...
...continuous editorial field of national and international policy, which has assumed an especial prominence during the past few months. No one can be uninterested in these problems; those who combine an interest in them with a desire for self expression will find in the CRIMSON editorial page an instrument unusually satisfactory and flexible...
Those who see in law a real social instrument, with connotations as important as its denotations, are inclined to believe that the solution lies not in any arbitrary prohibitions or injunctions, but in an attempt to form the national drinking habit along more civilized lines than it has ever followed in the past. Drunkenness, after all, is the evil, and it is an evil that does not assume unmanageable proportions in any of the great nations in Europe. This is primarily traceable to a habit of living which treats drink, not as an independent and serious enterprise...
...administration must realize that the monetary question is more than an academic one for irritable professors to squabble over; that it is one closely connected with the traditions of the American community. Monday is more a social custom and a habit than a deliberately designed instrument to control human behavior, but the men attempting to regulate our monetary system do not seem to realize this. They treat the question in a purely theoretical manner, and instead of putting men of practical judgment who have the confidence of the people in control of the situation, they give to into the hands...