Word: prediction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Refusing to predict a Yankee victory in one, two, or three games Fred Mitchell, Varsity baseball coach, expresses himself as non-committal on the question of the world series...
...sense of undergraduate social responsibility, Harvard has shown that she must avoid aloofness from the outer world. She has, with fluctuations, been a dominating force, in the past, in national and international affairs. Today she is trying earnestly to face the new problems which have arisen. We may confidently predict that, in doing so, she will avoid the evil of attempting to teach her future social leaders what to think, instead of how to think. Throughout her history, Harvard has kept a unique record in encouraging independent thought. For an illustration of this, as early as 1692, look...
...undergraduate of today is gratised at the great measure of freedom which the college authorities now allow him. The effect of this freedom on the student is his assumption of a large share of the responsibility for his own education. And it is safe to predict that this freedom will be no less when the College celebrates its four-hundredth birthday. Harvard has had a brilliant past. These recent developments show that Harvard, aware of the great changes that are taking place in the society of which she is a part, is prepared, now as always, to furnish that Intellectual...
...only did King Edward predict Peace in Europe last week (see p. 20) but at No. 23 Wall Street the doors of J. P. Morgan & Co. opened to receive reporters who had arrived by unprecedented invitation to interview Partner Thomas William Lamont on the state of Europe, from which he had just returned. The Lamont pronouncement on Peace which followed easily ranked with the recent Lindbergh pronouncement on War, in which the airman, who married a onetime Morgan partner's daughter, voiced his apprehension of a major European conflict with Death raining from the skies (TIME...
DAYS OF WRATH - André Malraux - Random House ($1.75). New authors, like clouds no bigger than a man's hand, appear frequently on the literary horizon, and never lack for meteorologists to predict their growth into the greatest storm yet seen. André Malraux is such a cloud. Before he swam into U. S. ken, transatlantic reports from his native France indicated that his thunder & lightning had awed many a seasoned observer there, and that the hailstones he had begun to pour down were of a majestic size and aspect unparalleled. When his Man's Fate (TIME, June...