Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After all, this would only mean submission to a nation-wide trend. Sociologists and psychologists everywhere agree that sex is here to stay. Since such a step would be of majorette significance in Harvard history, it would be necessary to conduct a coast-to-coast beauty survey. But once we had her, no more chilly afternoons in Soldiers Field...
...these departments, where middle-group teaching is being pared to the bone, is Government. Professor Holcombe has suggested that the remedy lies in handing the department two new permanent appointments, presumably full professorships. This would mean diverting funds from other departments -- robbing Peter to pay Holcombe. Regardless of the long-run merits of such a plan, it is unnecessary. The Government Department can solve its problems for the present and still live within its current income if it is permitted to appoint "frozen" associate professors...
...Conant must be over-impressed with the importance of his profession if he believes that education is a force powerful enough to go far in annihilating caste barriers. It seems necessary--even if it is trite--to remind him that equality of ability and equality of training do not mean equality of opportunity. Economic power still continues to be a decisive factor in the determination of position...
This, of course, does not mean that Mr. Conant's world is not a better place than the one we now live in. It undoubtedly is. He is to be warmly applauded for being conscious of the rising class problem in the first place, and then for suggesting such basically sound measures. In so far as a free and classless society is relative--and at one point Mr. Conant says it is--his solution is the best one possible. Be that as it may, the classless society remains an ideal and an illusion...
Thus, writes Anonymous, the statement that the moon in Paris "sheds its glorious light here as in the States" is supposed to mean "An advance is planned for the morrow." Other Anonymous decodings...