Word: matter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your special remark to artikel "Panama" Feb. 13, that the german sailors was pelted with rotten eggs and tomatoes in Cuba is untrue and on insult to us Cubans. Any visitors no matter if they are American, English, German etc marines or Jewish imigrants is allways looked up with respect here...
There lives in Winthrop House a young man suffering from a peculiar ailment. He cannot get up in the morning. For that matter, he can just barely get up in the afternoon. He just loves to sleep. Now sleeping is no rare ailment at Harvard. The peculiar quality about this young man's ailment is that ordinary methods do not arouse him from slumber. The most potent and heavy-handed alarm clock, placed only a few inches from his ear, startles everyone else on the floor, but to our young man it is as soft breezes sighing in the trees...
...generally recognized that the present haphazard diversity of procedure frequently results in confusion, unfairness, and lowered standards. In a matter so vital to Harvard's scholarly reputation there seems to good reason why the slightest mystery or uncertainly should prevail. While no system is immune to some measure of abuse or exploitation, we believe that it is possible to establish a tenure system and a democratic procedure, based upon the principle of Departmental autonomy, which will do much to eliminate the uncertainties and inequities of the present methods...
Democratization of departmental procedure in the matter of appointments and promotions, and standardization of Harvard's tenure system were urged yesterday in the March Bulletin of the Cambridge Union of University Teachers. The four-year-old A. F. of L. affiliate includes about 150 Harvard men in a total membership...
...serious a book as Quo Vadimus?, however, such relaxations are few. E. B. W.'s latest book shows that he still considers himself a humorist, and that he still considers being a humorist no laughing matter...