Word: needful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with no little satisfaction that one learns that the University intends itself to compensate the losses potentially undergone by the grantees of the fund. There need be as yet no timbrels and harps resounding for the recovery of the personal element in mechanically-directed Harvard; still, the employment of some of the famed $100,000,000 in this very direct way is pleasing. Though there continues to be discussion about the salaries of active professors, the policy of the University in regard to its great men of old must be approved...
...other hand, permanent steel stands with an original cost of $170,000 will still leave the subject open to consideration some time during the next ten years, while the need is temporarily met at comparatively low cost. Of the three types of construction that have been debated for several months, the concrete could not be constructed to duplicate the material and appearance of the present horseshoe, nor would it have the potential scrap value of the steel. The salvage of the steel will to some extent compensate for the unsightly appearance that this structure will present for a few years...
Critics delight to dwell upon the alleged stereotyped form of modern education. They deplore the lack of "contact" of college courses with the current life of the time, saying that there is need of a keener recognition of the changing effect of world events on the subject-matter. While any drastically revolutionary remedy for such deficiency must be looked on with suspicion, a plan suggests itself which is encouraging in its simplicity. The plan is to interpolate the regular lectures or class-room discussion in such subjects as government or economics with timely discourses on important world problems. How many...
...Remember that, should your boat need assistance, the entire available resources of the Coast Guard are yours for the asking...
...from wrapping paper. Philip Moeller and Edward Goodman gestured, intoned romantic lines. Helen Westley, who happened in, was audience. From this beginning came the Washington Square Players and eventually the Theatre Guild.* Starting officially in 1919, the Guildsmen planned two plays for their first season. They estimated they would need $2,000. They got $675-revenue from advance subscriptions taken by 135 sanguine friends and acquaintances. Most of the sum was invested in Jacinto Bena-vente's Bonds of Interest, a dismal failure. With the residue the Guildsmen painted new scenery on the back of the old and gave...