Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...auditorium to hear a committee which has been investigating the college administration. A majority report, signed by twelve members, charged that the president "lacks the human qualities necessary to achieve the widespread confidence of his faculty and his student body and to provide genuinely inspired, resourceful and socially imaginative leadership." Four committeemen supported the president, laid student agitation to a radical minority. For four hours the alumni debated. Shortly after midnight they adopted the majority report by a vote of 519 to 217, recommended not that Dr. Robinson be dismissed, but that administration of undergraduate affairs be placed in other...
Dartmouth's team is one of the strongest in the east, and is pressing Columbia for the leadership of the Eastern League. It has already registered one victory over Harvard, before the Christmas vacation, by a score...
...schools continue to graduate their boys at 18 and 19, the pressure on the college will be great to make a three year college course available to larger and larger numbers. Already the "progressive" universities, under the leadership of Chicago, have made it easier for students to cut the length of their courses, even in some cases to two years. If Harvard cannot induce or cajole the schools to send their men here at an earlier age, she will be forced gradually to make a shorter course easier for future graduate scholars...
With passing years the Hawaiian Government moved Martyr Damien's colony from Kalawao to Kalaupapa, some three miles away. Under the leadership of King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, Britons subscribed a granite monument for Damien's grave, a Damien Institute for leprosy study in England. Last year the Hawaiian Territorial Legislature appropriated $3,000 to care for the grave and the church. But the spot remained neglected of men, with few visitors until this week. Then, according to long laid plans, the remains of Father Damien were dug up, started on a journey half way around...
...that collaboration rose the DC-1, a 9-ton, twin-motored, low-wing monoplane which revolutionized air transport the world over. The first commercial transport plane the 12-year-old Douglas Aircraft Co. had ever built, it and the improved DC2 speedily lifted the company from insignificance to leadership. Simultaneously, the little Douglas factory at Santa Monica, Calif., grew into the world's largest airplane manufacturing plant...