Word: knowne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Never in my eighty-odd years of life," rasped the veteran Virginian, "have I known or heard of a more humiliating spectacle than that presented by the legislative body of a great, rich and powerful nation spending months in devising expedients to contravene immemorial requirements of international law through positive fear of a Central European assassin...
...seven Americans awarded the fellowships for the current year, only Ray S. Cline '39, of Terre Haute, Indiana, is definitely known to have taken up his fellowship; he is at Oxford...
...Little-known fields will be explored in the new course, Sociology of Education, given by Edward Y. Hartshorne '33, instructor in Sociology, which will discuss the old Chinese and Hindu teaching institutions, about which only one authoritative sociological work has been written...
Most histories of education start with the Greek and Roman period and neglect the older systems, a study of which often proves invaluable, Hartshorne declared yesterday. "Max Weber, well-known sociologist and economist, is the only man I know who has written an authoritative comparative work on the subject...
...intrinsically desirable teacher is turned out of Harvard and thereafter (within "the next five or ten years") a permanent appointee in his Department ceases to teach prior to retirement, the University will have been unnecessarily damaged.... But the present policy results in automatic dismissal of actual teachers of known value in favor of hypothetical teachers of unknowable value. Surely it is possible to frame a policy less blind and accidental in its operation. The solution lies in appointing men to vacancies in associate professorships as they actually arise rather than to vacancies in full professorships as they are predicted...