Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S characteristically veracious report of Mr. Putnam's efforts to obtain sanction from the War Department for the use of pictures from its files illustrating the horrors of war is excellent in its frankness. That General Carrs refusal to acquiesce to the scheme should be based on the preservation of Gold Star Mothers' memories seems, however, a trifle lame as an alibi. Granted that the patriotic side of wars should be preserved, it is still unnecessary, foolish, harmful to prevent the public assimilation of truth. May the book, however grisly, impress citizens who pay millions in taxes for wholesale...
...books are news. Unless otherwise designated, all books reviewed in TIME were published within the fortnight. TIME readers may obtain any book of any U. S. publisher by sending check or money-order to cover regular retail price ($5 if price is unknown, change to be remitted) to Ben Boswell of TIME. 135 East 42nd St New York City...
Entertainment for the students is offered in various ways. Early in the fall the appearance of Mr. H. G. Wells was more a triumph for Leverett House than for the undergraduates themselves who could obtain no very adequate opinion of him in the brief minutes of personal conversation they were allowed. The House Dinners which occur about once a week in themselves contribute little to the members' enjoyment or instruction, although the speeches which follow have been generally good. In addition to this there have been informal talks in the common room by various professors after small dinners attended...
...Harvard Business School claims to offer to young men going into business the training needed for practice and earlier opportunities for executive responsibility. The words that keep constantly recurring are 'executives, general executives, executive work, management, advertising as an instrument to be used by executives in order to obtain financial success'. Sections dealing with social policies, with business history from a cultural or intellectual point of view, are brief. Now the executive is only one of the four or five elements that would be prominent in a university school of business if business were a profession. The laborer...
...heads of the House made the most of the opportunity offered. It is probable that even apart from its extra size, Eliot has a slightly larger number both of Dean's List men and of social luminaries. The advantage, however, is not unqualified. The effort to obtain the best "cross-section" of Harvard talent has resulted, perversely enough, in breaking up the House into cliques which do not intermingle enough. There is too little organization and initiative among the members themselves. The House Committee, which was appointed by the Master last fall, confined itself to a tea dance in November...