Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commission appointed by President Conant to study the feasibility of establishing a Graduate School of Public Administration at Harvard has reported in favor of the experiment. Hence, under the terms of the recent gift of $2,000,000 from Mr. Lucius N. Littauer for the purpose, the university authorities are going ahead with plans for the new school based on the commission's recommendations, and the country is soon to witness a wholly new "educational adventure." We have no doubt it will watch its progress with the keenest of interest and with every hope of its success...
...exercised a worth-while influence on the Freshman Class, as illustrated especially by the service several of them rendered in helping to make a survey of the work of the freshman year and by the leading part which two played in putting out the most successful Red Book in recent years, in addition to the leadership in many other activities of the Class...
...digest" monthly to give readers boiled-down versions of full-length books. This week the U. S. saw the result-a 25? Book Digest, of which 75,000 copies were distributed to the stands of American News Co. First issue of Book Digest had condensations of ten recent books, fast-sellers like John Gunther's Inside Europe, Herbert Asbury's The French Quarter, Pearl Buck's Fighting Angel...
...Recent Federal legislation affecting business is critically examined in the winter number of the Harvard Business Review, published at the Business School, and out today...
...these two classes of fishermen who have been most interested in recent months in the possible development of an entirely new fishery along the New England coast, a shrimp fishery, which promises to be a profitable supplement to the activities of some, and to fill a badly felt winter gap for others. If such an industry does develop, and there are now indications that it will, it will be one of the first and most tangible results of Harvard's Tercentenary Celebration. For it was one of the men brought over from Europe to be honored at the Celebration...