Word: memorandum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seen in, absence from town and other critical matters. Last fortnight a little grey pamphlet made its appearance in Oxford, containing many of these old rules, resurrected from ancient domesday books and dusted off, or written freshly to meet modern conditions. The booklet was entitled Memorandum on the Conduct and Discipline of Junior Members of the University (i.e., undergraduates) and set forth...
Leniniana? As if to render the humbling of Leon Trotzky more abject, there came to light last week what purports to be an authentic "deathbed memorandum" by the great Lenin, warning Russian Communists against Joseph Stalin. This document, allegedly suppressed by M. Stalin since the death of Lenin (TIME, Jan. 28, 1924), was given front page position last week by the New York Times and many another respected U. S. newsorgan...
...symphonies above all others. Thus everywhere musicians are scouring for relics of Beethoven. Last week in Europe a discovery was made, not an unfinished symphony to be treated and pieced together, nor a scrap of a sonata, cool, clear, deathless, but a part of a diary on an old memorandum sheet scratched by Beethoven, the querulous, untidy, unreasonable old man. It has to do with his servant problems...
...German delegation submitted a significant memorandum on this point: "The suggested examination of methods likely to bring rapid assistance to a country attacked should not, in the opinion of the German delegation, be based on the present position of armaments, which is temporary. The examination should have as a starting point a state of disarmament resulting from the conference such that no county would be so powerful as to be in a position to assert its strength against that of the League of Nations." Disarmed Germany naturally favors the rapid disarmament of other powers to an "equality of weakness" with...
...three years since this movement for greater freedom and individuality of student effort was approved by the Faculty and went into operation, been a degree of progress that is obvious and highly encouraging. The student leaders during the year made inquiries amongs their fellows and presented an illuminating memorandum showing the general warm appreciation of the new freer schedule, the intelligence and industry of the general body of students in using their free time, the great increase in numbers who wish to carry on advanced voluntary work, and the general and marked increase in reading out side the routine...