Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Modern All-American teams cannot possibly represent the best players in the country, Campbell stated. "When I played, football was just barely starting in the West and South. Now selectors have to take into consideration hundreds of teams all over the country. Naturally, they're bound to overlook good men in small colleges...
...pointed to administrative law as the solution to our present legal difficulties. Because of the complicated interlocking nature of modern society, it is necessary to set up correspondingly specialized legal and administrative commissions to deal with the problems of this society...
Public service is fast becoming the keynote of modern legal training. The young lawyer must learn to act as a mediator of human affairs rather than as a craftsman. Although the Law School will try to develop this attitude in its students, it will not relax its technical training in the least, Dean Landis added...
Icons from Tibetan monasteries, priceless additions to the Manchu collection, and a modern fireproof rare-book room are only a few of the recent accessions of the Yenching Institute in Boylston Hall...
Still another use for the bequest might be for theoretical research--the compiling of statistics comparing the size, records, trends, and literary standards of modern journalism. This scheme has its merits, chief of which is that such investigation could shed a great light on some features of the field about which data is totally lacking today. No phase of journalism need be immune--advertising methods, combinations, press service, news gathering, editorial policies, even paper itself--and on all these subjects additional research might easily be construed as helping "elevate the standards...