Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...training, and after he won the national hop, step & jump championship at 22 he was invariably called the "Leaping Parson." From the Leeds Baptist Church on the outskirts of Kansas City, where the deacons thought his labor gospel somewhat apocryphal, he leaped to a Chevrolet assembly line, then to leadership of a Kansas City local and finally in one tremendous leap to the front of C.I.O.'s noisiest, most turbulent union. Last week President Martin found himself in a spot from which he could not leap, much as he would have liked to, without immediate risk of mortal injury...
...fraternity is Sigmy. Alpha Epsilon (109 chapters, 32,500 living members). One of America's most pretentious national fraternity conventions is that staged by GAB's officers and Emincut Supreme Recorder Lauren Foreman. Distinguished by its seriousness of purpose, a prominent place on its program is given to a Leadership School for the training of undergraduate fraternity leaders. Most serious are its general sessions, where discussions of ritual, scholarship, fraternity history and purposes do not let undergraduate delegates forget the great social aims and accomplishments of college fraternalism. Not unlike, other fraternities is SAE in its convention program. Here COLLEGIATE...
Declaring that it gave the country the "courageous leadership which the circumstances require," Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, expressed his approval of Roosevelt's Chicago peace speech in an interview last night...
Assuming the mantle of leadership with the perspective gained from a term of distinguished service to Harvard University, the new president falls heir to a program already nursed through a trying period of growing pains. He steps into the driver's seat of an assembled machine which needs only careful guiding and attentive care. As a prominent undergraduate, alumnus, and trustee, Dr. Baxter's traditions are those of Williams. He and Williams should make an excellent match. --The Williams Record...
...Security. There is little excuse for an institution as well endowed as Harvard is, comparatively speaking, to have neglected to make suitable provision for its aged and faithful employees. If the University is to continue to call itself a progressive institutions, and pride itself upon holding a place of leadership in the United States, it ought to think of such things sooner, or at least endeavor to keep abreast of the times, instead of bringing up the rear...