Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Advocate traditions. They know that out of the unsavory financial and editorial confusion that heralded the Advocate's wartime retirement from the field of undergraduate publications had come a magazine of poems and aesthetics. Their aim, according to Watt, is "to be a Harpers on the College level...
Keeping the supply of University secretaries at a constant level is one of the bardest and most constant problems the Personnel department has to face. These harassed employers don't bother to keep a record of just how long their employees last or why they leave, but know only too well that they are called upon to make well over one hundred replacements each year in the College secretarial staff alone...
Side by side with this development has come the increased importance of education as an all-pervading factor, in national life. Modern communications and transportation have made the flow of public opinion and people both simple and vital. No longer can it be held that the level and quality of education in Texas has no effect upon life in Oregon or Connecticut. In short, state-operated education now plays an ever-expanding role in the country's existence...
...light of the recognized deficiencies in our schools, the remedy of which calls for some Federal financial aid, would some measure of Federal direction or control of the recipients of its aid be a good thing? On a broad policy level, should Washington have some practical voice in the aims and methods of the school systems which are so vital to the Nation's well-being? A quick yes-or-no answer to these questions is impossible. Their implications are too broad. What is clear, however, is that more widespread consideration of the possible merits and drawbacks of some Federal...
Even the 18 remaining courts have deteriorated badly from lack of care, and are in need of extensive repair. But this situation will not be permanent.: athletic director William Bingham '16 is working on plans to bring the situation back to a pre-war level as soon as possible. An estimated $200,000 will be needed to bring this about, not all of which can be allotted to tennis at this time. The work of repairing and constructing the courts may take anywhere from one to three years, depending on conditions. Bingham is working toward this goal at present...