Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corp. Under pinchpenny Chairman Atlee Pomerene, RFC dwindled in power and prestige until by March 1933 it had hit bottom. Two months later Jesse Jones took over as chairman and RFC's great days began. He conducted himself and his huge money-lending business so well, with such level-headed liberalism, that it became easily the public's favorite New Deal agency, and he perhaps Washington's favorite administrator. Just how popular he was it remained for the U. S. Senate to demonstrate last week...
...made so effective and valuable that men will pay large amounts of money to get them. True enough last years half-cocked attempts came nowhere near the professional standards, but there is faith in many that time and experience could bring the College's teachers to the same level as their rivals. Conceivably the Union Committee might not have been disheartened by past ill luck but aroused to greater efforts to fill the gap they knew exists...
Looking optimistically towards a cleaner and more efficient governmental machinery, the Fellowships give qualified men an excellent opportunity to bring up the general level of politics. Because of the small number of Fellowships, however, the value of this opportunity is extremely limited. The field should be widened and funds should be appropriated or accomodate more men if the plan is to have any noticeable influence...
...course, we do not agree that the establishment of a formal league would not attain the desired ends of mutual confidence and a high level of athletic standards. But we are willing that all sides of the question be discussed as long as they are being discussed and not just ignored...
...setting a "critical grade" between the promising and the less promising, President Conant said that subject matter is of little importance, the examination level and the intrinsic capacity of the student, whose intellectual places in the world are predestined at least by the time they enter college, being the significant factors. The only important requisites of a liberal education, in addition to good teaching which brings out the intellectual capacity of each student, are concentration in a limited field as opposed to smatterings of information, and a stimulating atmosphere which promotes discussion between men of different departments...