Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commonplace now, after a series of hard experiences, to speak of the dangers of an academic proletariat with all its cruel consequences not only for the persons directly concerned but also for the nation as a whole," he writes. "Moreover, it is hardly worth while to affirm that the members of such a proletariat--disappointed, unemployed, and equipped with a relatively high standard of mental training and skill--very often become the bearers of a radical revolutionary attitude...
...only of and for individuals but of and for greater groups of people, of the community and of the state. And even private schools in many respects are dependent upon, and therefore also bound to the cooperation of many political and cultural factors within the frame of the whole nation...
...Builders of the Bay Colony" by Samuel A. Morison '08, professor of history, has been chosen as one of 200 contemporary books to be presented to President Roosevelt Tuesday by the nation's booksellers to supplement the permanent White House library. The committee of judges which made the selections included Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Emeritus; Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Alexander Woolcott, Christopher Morely, Julia Peterkin, and William Lyon Phelps. Perry is reported to be one of the Pulitzer Prize committee, although the judges' names have never been officially revealed by Columbia University...
Tests to investigate the transitional period when students are going form secondary schools to college will be conducted here next week at Phillips Brooks House. One hundred and fifty students from six schools will take these tests as part of a nation-wide survey...
Japan's plan provides for the abolition of existing ratios, equality of naval strength, limitation of offensive ships yet unlimited authority for each nation to build as many defensive ships as it wants. The last provision is the oriental joker. International law has yet failed to give a satisfactory definition of offensive ships. Thus under the shelter of such a treaty Japan could, and will if possible, attempt to build her navy to match the strength of her Pacific rivals. Once already, fear of Japanese invasion has caused a concentration of English sea power to protect Singapore and the Dutch...