Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his thousands of national committeemen, State chairmen, State committeemen, county chairmen, county committeemen and precinct leaders lying like fever thermometers under the tongues of the body politic, a national Party chairman is supposed to know the curve of the nation's political temperature well in advance of lay observers. Last week, after consolidating the readings of his executive committeemen at a consultation in Chicago, Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton announced that the national fever chart of Landon enthusiasm showed a slump during August, but was now displaying a hopeful rise. In that revelation...
With such a set-up, small wonder that Harvard lays claim to being one of the cultural centers of the nation. As a reservoir of abstract learning, with libraries, laboratories and learned men, she holds a definite trust, both in perpetuating past scholarship and in stimulating the arts and sciences for present day benefits to humanity. A glance at Harvard's contributions to industrial life, for instance, bears striking witness to the value of scientific investigation to the national economy. And most important of all are the men, schooled in the healthy student life or trained professionally in graduate work...
...whole institution, far more effectual against attacks from without than the utmost amount of privilege and protection." Attacks from without--the phrase has a modern ring. Events proved that the Commission of 1850 was correct in its statement, the changes which they advocated restored the confidence of the nation in its two ancient institutions. They could not foresee, however, the reluctance of certain sections of public opinion to welcome the restoration of the true university tradition. They did not realize how willingly the public often follows those who argue for a separation of teaching and research! No better illustration could...
That is the principle which causes human institutions to last. The men who founded Harvard College in 1636 were of an age when many of them might have seen Shakespeare in the flesh. When Harvard was one hundred years old there was as yet no American nation. At its 200th anniversary the solidarity of the American union had still to be put to its crucial test. Yet through three hundred great and troubled years Harvard has endured; it has lived past wars and revolutions; it is older than the government under which it exists. Like a great river which...
Neither Purse Nor Sword or the Menace to the Union (Macmillan, $2) was nearly finished when Pennsylvania's onetime Representative James Montgomery ("The Constitution") Beck died. Upon his death it was finished by Merle Thorpe, editor of The Nation's Bttsiness. Its opening sentence: "It is an interesting coincidence that at the very time when Edward Gibbon was approaching the completion of his monumental work-the 'mighty epitaph' of the greatest republic of ancient times-a small group of men assembled in Philadelphia were creating a new republic in the western world which, in point...