Word: remaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aims of Harvard College. Men shape institutions in their own image and it is clear that Mr. Conant envisions the Harvard of the future as a paradise for those rare creative scholars of whom he is one. It is a noble aim, but if Harvard is to remain a college as well as a university it cannot be the only aim. The great bulk of undergraduates who are not creative scholars do not come here solely to be infused with "a passionate interest in the growth of human knowledge." For since they are never themselves to contribute to that growth...
...support of the powers in order to accure foreign loans. So far their policy has brought about a condition which is almost exactly the opposite of that which they want. The obvious solution was to change this policy or rather to appear to change it; actually, their aims would remain just as they always have been, while the superficial metamorphosis would alleviate world opinion...
...followers of Lord Hewart" and the "writers of angry books on bureaucracy." As John Dickinson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, once pointed out to some of us, the word, "bureaucracy" has an emotional significance which causes a man of scientific leanings to shun its use in scientific discussion. Nevertheless, there remain grave dangers inherent in a civil service when the methods of selecting its members has been as informal as that of the Administration during the past eleven months. The President has surrounded himself with a new hierarchy of civil servants, starting at the top with the Brain Trust and proceeding...
...Sprague and his colleagues had the honor of conferring with Mr. Jones, the biggest businessman in the U. S. (see p. 16). Then they emerged with their orders. In their pockets they had the names of 17 of the bank's 34 directors who would be allowed to remain in office and of eight more who were to be elected because the RFC wanted them.* Moreover the committee was to invite Mr. Cummings to become not only chairman but "chief executive" of the bank. To hear was to obey. The committee issued the invitation and added an obsequious promise...
...recent past the CRIMSON has proposed economies beyond the library which would permit reopening the reading room during the reading and examination periods. If these are not convincing arguments, and it is only too obvious that a great many important people still wish to remain convinced, then there is another economy, this time internal, which might well be brought into play. Has it never occurred to Widener officials, during their conversations on this subject, that there is in their employ a body of about twenty men, whose jobs were created, whose time is at the disposal of the library...