Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great universities of the western world are older than any of the world's existing governments. The secret of their unfailing vitality is that they attract to themselves and again send forth into the community men who care about ideas and ideals. They are the special guardians of the nation's cultural heritage. They are the places to which the intellectual leadership of a democracy must always resort for inspiration and training. They are centers of intellectual independence and progress, radiating a profound and immeasurable influence on the character and development of the nation...
...record the Economic Siege, so that it will remain throughout the centuries as a documentation of the enormous injustice perpetrated against Italy, which has contributed so much to the civilization of all continents. . . . The Grand Council acclaims its enthusiasm in Il Duce, who realizes the supreme right of the nation to win security in Africa...
After counting up the damage, newshawks agreed that Dartmouth, Minnesota, Princeton. Southern Methodist and Texas Christian were all strong Eastern Rose Bowl material. Dartmouth, the nation's highest scoring major team, has yet to play Princeton. For the third successive year, Princeton's juvenile journalists derisively flayed the Rose Bowl game, this time as a "commercial classic," summarily counted their team out. Minnesota would probably decline, if asked, because of Big Ten conference rulings. Left as most probable choices were Southern Methodist and Texas Christian...
Last week the nation's bankers met again, this time in New Orleans, home town of retiring ABA President Rudolf S. Hecht. The climate was milder, the bankers bolder, the New Dealers more conciliatory...
...advocating University Professorships and National Scholarships, the President and Fellows have chartered a momentous educational course for Harvard. In the words of President Conant the two uses for the Tercentenary Fund form "parts of a single purpose to increase broadly the service of Harvard to the nation...