Word: periodicities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant assumed office in 1933 with this situation confronting him. Over a period of six years, it has been the purpose oi the present administration to explore every avenue for solving the problem. After a study of the departments in which the crowding of the lower ranks was most acute, the administration decided that unless there was a future opening for a young instructor he must seek a position elsewhere after a period of apprenticeship. An impartial committee of eight professors appointed in 1937 to study this matter arrived at essentially the same conclusion as the administration. Their report...
...much difficulty in guessing that they exceeded the Finnish idea of independence and neutrality. The political atmosphere indicated that a major national crisis was at hand and that this would probably be the tell-tale week. Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko, in a big patriotic rally, said that a "period of nerve-testing" was at hand. "The time is difficult," Press Chief Urho Toivola admitted. "We feel our freedom and independence are threatened." Early this week 300 Finns gathered outside the Helsinki Hotel at which U. S. Minister H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld stayed, and sang The Star-Spangled Banner before going...
...strongly convinced that the intellectual demoralization of post war America takes its origin to a considerable extent in the actions of those intellectual leaders who beat the war drums of that earlier period...
...period of two weeks beginning Monday, November 13, Upperclassmen and Graduate Students who have paid the Medical and infirmary Fee may have physical examinations at the Hygiene Building, 15 Holyoke Street. Applications should be made at the office of the Physical Education Department, Hygiene Building, or by calling KIRkland 7600, Line 184. Appointments can be arranged from today on and not later than November 20. Please make your appointments early...
...point, the arguments of Dean Ferguson and the Alumni are incontrovertible. But when they have been stated, they have proven absolutely nothing, because they are concerned with entirely different matters than are the Administration critics. They are looking at the College as a whole taken over a long period of time. From this point of view, it is possible to construct a neat set of figures which shows that the budget has declined and consequently has necessitated a drastic climination of men in the lower ranks; and which--by hook or crook--also shows that the total number...