Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many Cambridge citizens, Harvard seems a vast, sprawling Croesus, living on Cambridge soil, building its towers, providing palatial quarters for its students, causing hundreds of fires, hundreds of riots and disturbances, hundreds of traffic snarls each year. In return for this it pays nothing. Or, at best, a mere $72,000 a year. It is right that it pay more, reason those at Central Square. But this picture is fallacious. Any perusal of President Conant's letter will show such assertions deftly and straightforwardly answered...
...know that America for generations has prided itself upon its increasingly high standards of living. But we know too that the standard of living has a significance more profound than any mere material term would imply. ... A standard of living, based on a high level because of its spiritual as well as its material wellbeing, can never exist in a nation oppressed with fear, prejudice, racial superstition or religious persecution...
...ideas on money are summed up in a statement of Schacht, former German economic minister, that "Money that is not issued against needed goods is mere printed paper," and the remark that "gold and silver are not needed goods...
That a portion of the Harvard Faculty, that stronghold of virulent individualism, has taken initiative in protesting against the execution of Federal Arts is a challenge to teachers throughout the country. For teachers are not mere pedants whose work is signed, scaled and delivered with a diploma. They are custodians of America's intellectual and artistic life and as such should meet with concerted action this threat to a part of the Arts...
This, of course, is mere generalization. In many cases, big names, outside of their publicity value, provide a net profit on the investment. Even if such men are not available to students, they are extremely valuable for the new ideas which they scatter among their colleagues. Here in particular, a man like Richards is capable of injecting a gush of vitality into Harvard's ailing English department. In the final analysis, it is simply a question of whether the giants will continue to progress and to create, or whether they will stolidly rest on past achievement. An in this case...