Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred and twenty-five members of the H. S. U. last night heard Howard Munford Jones, Professor of English, and Robert H. Lane '39 speak at a banquet in Leverett House in honor of Lane's recent election to the national chairmanship of the American Student Union...
...recent years Landis has been prominent in activities connected with government control of business, serving at various times before his return to Cambridge last fall on the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities Exchange Commission...
...gifts for special purpose bring with them new responsibilities. Sometimes these responsibilities are such that the University accepts them with a heavy heart and some reluctance; in rare cases it refuses them altogether. But the recent Nieman bequest, though it places an additional problem at our door, can only be regarded as a great challenge to this particular academic community. We are asked to expend the money in such a why as to 'promote and elevate the standards of journalism,' using journalism in the widest sense of the term. The provisions of the will are very broad; there...
...Harvard no one wants a liberal education and academic freedom more than President Conant, yet in the recent past the University has restricted the latter by discriminating among teachers and the trend to the social sciences by Dean Hanford has seemed to confine for Harvard the former. If by a liberal education is meant an emphasis on the teaching of intelligent citizenship, which, in the words of Ernest Bates, is "knowledge of the nature of man, society, and government," then Harvard appears well on the way to its accomplishment. It by such an education is meant the broad cultivation...
Dean Landis has in recent years been prominent in activities connected with government control of business. While a member of the Federal Trade Commission in 1933, he helped draft the Securities Act. In the next year he was appointed to the Securities Exchange Commission, and became its chairman in 1935. He held this post until his recent return to Harvard...