Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When, last week, middleaged, pince-nezed Nadia Boulanger stood up before the Boston Symphony Orchestra and raised a long, bony index finger, it was the first time in its 57-year history that the second oldest U. S. orchestra* had sounded off under feminine leadership...
Marking the opening of a new program of co-operation between University faculty and alumni, a symposium entitled "The Impact of Science on Everyday Life" will be presented under the leadership of President Conant at the Harvard Club of New York on March...
...fewer students in schools of all levels and kinds, or the expenditure of less money on teaching for any and all purposes--the Union might have been justified in its accusation that he has suggested "a ploughing under of human brains." But he did no such thing; and his leadership in the Harvard plan for the wider study of American History, in the establishment of the National Scholarships, and in the development of two new professional schools within the University is sufficient evidence that he is not "thinking in terms of a static society." There is nothing in President Conant...
Although he did not give concrete evidence of what he regarded to be the major issue--the growth of federal domination instead of leadership--he paved the way for a new departure which the Republicans would do well to adopt. If the elephant boys can destroy the impression that they oppose every effort of the government to discharge the obligations that economic changes impose on it, they may possibly achieve an understanding of the concrete demands people are making. Such an understanding will some day enable the G.O.P. to be of much more service to the nation...
...temper was a scandal to the town; a law partner who brought his mean children to the office where they tore up the papers and urinated or the floor uncorrected; a practical politician who set out coldly to destroy Douglas when he saw Douglas as his rival for leadership of the West; a great talker who would start to work but waste his time telling stories and then walk home silently to a scolding wife. But he was also a local politician for whom great things had always been predicted, who was honest, picturesque, wise, extraordinary in his generosity...