Word: procession
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Paramount among the Commission's objectives as explained by Landis, are improvement of corporate practices, subordination of the role of speculation in national life, and making the investment process intelligible to the investor. Its reports aim not to give financial advice, but to furnish a means for the buyer himself to invest intelligently...
When President Conant carried greetings from Harvard and the educational world to Iowa State College on its ninetieth birthday party yesterday, both his presence and the words of his mouth gave striking witness to the basic validity of the Harvard educational ideal. Reversing the process of last September, when Mr. Conant gathered world-wide greetings in honor of his own university's age and pre-eminence, the president has taken up the gage of responsibility that pre-eminence demands. His speech at Iowa City not only conveys anniversary regards to a younger institution, but trumpets to the nation at large...
...student plays the determining part in the value of the college training. If in the universities it is our purpose to prepare leaders, that is, not the geniuses but the "outstanding men in professional life," we must pay especial attention to the selective process as regards recruiting...
Harvard 2 has been the scene of much that is beautiful in student-teacher relationships. Generations of pupils have sat in simple humility while the glittering jewels of knowledge were kindly, simply offered by great men. This relationship has been a process of mutual give-and-take; the student, straining in attention, lends his ears, while the lecturer spends freely of his hard-earned store. Now that the sanctity of our three hundred years lies officially upon us, now that the day of the greats is fast drawing to a close, this relationship may truly be said to have ripened...
...prehistoric times, human beings from the once verdant Sahara desert settled in the valley of the Nile and were forced by the difficulties of making a living to use their brains. Here and in the lands to the east arose the earliest civilizations. To study "the most remarkable process known to us in the universe: the rise of man from savagery to civilization," Professor James H. Breasted founded The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, and sent out fourteen expeditions to Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Anatolia, Iraq, and Persia. "The Human Adventure" was produced under the supervision of Professor Breasted...