Word: musts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other hand, President Conant said, there is the temptation to hink that "the business of this generation is trying to straighten out the tangled net of on upset society," and that the young man must concern himself with "vital matters...
...problem of evil" each man must find his own answer, the President stated, and "not attempt to dodge the problem by wishful thinking." He attacked the enervating effect of an individual's or a generation's self-pity and found cause for some optimism in history's recital of unfulfilled evil prophecies...
Current administrative policy, it must be evident, is doubly calculated to strip Harvard of this intermediate group of its instructing staff. On the one hand, teachers of proved capacity are discharged for no other reason than that they have already taught effectively for eight years. On the other hand, teachers of developing capacity are given every possible incentive, unintentional as well as intentional, not to crowd the eight-year limit. These losses are being tragically multiplied by a growing conviction, which no one can welcome, that an appointment in the University for whatever period--even if can be secured...
...recent issue, "Time" treated the Report on Some Problems of Personnel of the "Committee of Eight" as a kind of academic Magna Carta. It seems likely, however, that those close to the situation must infer from the objective significance of President Conant's acceptance of the Report "in principle" as announced in his open letter of May 32 to the Board of Overseers...
...were to be prepared, not just crammed in two days before. Widener and Memorial Church they were suddenly things to look at with a new gaze. The river--it became a place to sit quietly and dream, no longer merely a place of conquest. And The Grill became a "must" every night...