Word: regarded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tendency to regard geology and geography as "pipes" to be taken as fifth courses or to pass a science requirement does not hold for the field itself. But industrious work will pay very practical dividends, as concentration in the field will prepare an undergraduate to pass the Civil Service junior geologist exam, to obtain a job in mining or oil, and a full understanding of map work is valuable for a military commission...
Conferences between the F.B.I. and Northwestern's President Snyder and other University officials resulted in a virtual ultimatum to the Daily to refrain from making any comment whatever in regard to the War; as an alternative it offered a faculty censor to blue-pencil every item slated to appear. The off-shoot was a farcical situation in which the Daily began living in a vacuum, apparently oblivious of such things as Defense Stamps, War Production Boards, Panzer Divisions, and Japanese...
Professor Spykman's contribution to the debate on intervention versus isolation is contained in such brilliant chapters of his book as America and the Transatlantic Zone ("The position of the United States in regard to Europe as a whole is ... identical to the position of Great Britain in regard to the European continent. . . .") America and the Transpacific Zone ("Participation in a war to preserve the balance of power in Europe against Germany means war in cooperation with the dominant naval power. Participation in a war to preserve the balance of power in Asia . . . means war against Japan, against...
Colonel Whittaker, who had just finished reviewing the Business School Quartermaster Corps mass calisthenics, is willing to back up this statement with regard to the Corps by actual statistics which he kept at his former training school in Philadelphia. Another curious fact shown by these statistics was that men from colleges in small towns and the country are more successful in general than those from cities...
...ought to be just as clear that those who prefer an education to a commission are equally entitled to the resources of the University. Many undergraduates desire to make every moment of their school life count in acquiring what they regard as something of permanent value. Such undergraduates do not represent wasted ability, nor are they useless to their country. It is a pity that America's foremost university should have so easily and casually overlooked the tremendous importance to the nation of liberally educated...