Word: panacea
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...many undergraduates the suspicion that Mr. Conant thinks of the tutorial system as nothing but an "educational panacea" will offer small grounds for acclaim. But there are few who will deny the clear implication of the report that Harvard stands in need of better material for her faculty. Harvard's faculty today contains too many men who are neither great teachers nor great scholars. The figures whose names once made the University Catalogue read like the roster of a national academy of learning, are fading rapidly into the past, and their successors do not fall gracefully into the heroic molds...
This work cannot be called propaganda. The inferences which any sane person draws from it are not that socialism is necessary, or Christian charity, or any particular panacea. The prints simply awake compassion for sufferers. If the sufferers are all the victims of capitalism and capitalistic war, that is but a reflection of the world as it exists today...
...theory that solving the Depression is not a one-man job, even for a Democratic President, Senator Pat Harrison. Mississippi Democrat, was inspired to bring every possible plan, program, proposal or panacea into sharp focus at the Capitol where Mr. Roosevelt could pick and choose the ones he liked best. To that end, Senator Harrison last month had the Senate pass his resolution authorizing the Finance Committee, of which he becomes chairman after March 4, "to make an investigation and study of the present economic problems of the U. S. with the particular object of obtaining the views of such...
...startling and unreliable figures before a depression struck people," said E. S. Mason, associate professor of Economics, in an interview yesterday. "It shows what a love of fads the people of the United States have, but you can't blame anyone for turning to any new panacea, however dubious, in a depression of this sort...
...general election must come soon in England. Whether the outcome will fulfill Henderson's prophecies of evil for Labor is doubtful. In view of the general swing to the right, it is quite possible that the English people will decisively reject socialism as a panacea for its ills, in which case the defeated can console themselves with the assurance that their time will come...