Word: request
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last January, at the request of Chester H. McCall, 28-year old assistant to Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper, Wingo gave up his job in a Washington bank to put into affect a plan for a "laboratory of leadership in public affairs," by which college men and women from all over the country would be picked each year to study Washington affairs at first hand...
...institution which it was designed to replace. Absenteeism was one of the major defects of the old system, and there is no guarantee that the new council will be free from that difficulty. Like its predecessor again, it has no definite powers. Meeting merely at the express request of the President, it deliberates only on matters submitted by him or suggested by a faculty member...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld...
...while the undergraduate feels that there is much evidence to back his claim to greater responsibility and his request for more academic freedom, there are those who regard his zeal in this direction as suspiciously comparable to that of a high-schooler contemplating recess. In all common sense it must be admitted that the truth is probably half way between the two points of view. The fact that this truth is unpalatable, makes it none the less true. And the conditions which make it fact, constitute one of the most pressing problems to be met by American educators today...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld...