Word: reporters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like manner, the petition which was posted in the Union on Friday evening is but an elaboration on principles already adequately dealt with in the Student Council's report on the subject. A few near-sighted amendments are offered to the Council's report--near-sighted because they are again only advocating principles already in practice when they recommend that the National Scholarship men and Student waiters receive preference over men of equal records; near-sighted because in recommending that all Dean's List men be assured of admission, they are contradicting their own position since their cry has been...
Among the other important suggestions included in the protest are that National Scholarship men, Union waiters, and men working their way through school be given preference over those otherwise on an equal qualification basis with them, that applications be accompanied by a confidential financial report blank, and that group applications be considered on a "a comparative, collective basis...
Leaf. If any Moscow foreign correspondent last week knew the whereabouts of Comrade Litvinoff, he did not report it, even though the Soviet Union had suddenly abolished the long practice of censoring newsmen's outgoing despatches. When Adolf Hitler wants to say something really important he convenes his Reichstag. Foreign correspondents last week wondered whether Comrade Stalin was not taking a leaf from the Hitler notebook when there was summoned to meet on May 25 the U.S.S.R. Parliament, the All-Union Congress of Soviets. Last time the Congress met was last August during the fighting between Japan...
...which would circumscribe the freedom of action of the Masters. The difficulties inherent in such a plan are evident. For it is next to impossible to make arbitrary standards for evaluating the activities and scholastic standing of a college student. What is more, such suggestions in the recent Council Report as the compulsory admittance of Dean's List men and the barring of almost all probation men may still allow for much unfairness in selection. But, undesirable as the establishment of fixed rules may be, the rash actions of the House Masters, if continued, will inevitably necessitate steps of this...
Members of the department who will leave next year emphasized the point made in the recent tenure report, that too little importance is given to teaching ability in making promotions and pointed out that as a result of this there was no incentive for the young instructor to do anything but publish. Three stated that the department was little more than a jumping-off point for greater heights and teaching was made, by the nature of the setup, an annoying accessory...