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...mistaken not to disclose them. No one knows what he does think and his remarks on the subject form an inconsequential part of his speeches. He is responsible at present for the Faculty attitude which is not conductive to his purpose. A speech on scholarship would do little to restrict the flexibility of his freedom and would aid immeasurably a sane discussion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Failure of Conant to Define Scholarship Adequately Has Thrown Most Younger Members of Faculty into Alarm | 6/5/1935 | See Source »

Resolutions offered by Senators Nye and Clark to restrict the issuance of passports and the making of loans to belligerent nations are of particular significance at this time, since the policy of Great Britain at the forthcoming Stresa Conference depends largely upon the attitude of the United States. The Nye-Clark resolutions, which express a willingness to abandon our traditional insistence on the "freedom of the seas" in a technically legal sense, would--if adopted--encourage the English in the belief that the American navy would not oppose British blockade of an aggressor nation. Thus the way for acceptance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 4/11/1935 | See Source »

Working in conjunction with the Brooks House, the association will restrict its work for the remainder of this year to a study of the sociological methods employed by agencies about Boston. Perkins Institute will receive especial attention, and the leader of the movement, Chester G. Ormond '38, has announced that his organization will cooperate with the officials of Perkins in their work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Cross Corps Formed by Students for Social Study | 3/14/1935 | See Source »

...enemies of the other. In addition he had a third group to satisfy, businessmen who believe that if a business writes its own ticket it will soon bankrupt the economic railroad on which it is traveling. What good, they ask, does it do a business to fix prices or restrict production if high prices ruin its market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: Midway Man | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

...other hand, it is inadvisable to restrict the language requirement to a reading knowledge of one language. That would, perhaps, be an improvement over the present system, but every college graduate, except possibly the concentrators in science, should have a useful reading knowledge of two languages. But there is doubtful logic in restricting that knowledge to a modern and an ancient language. Instead a plan whereby Latin, Greek, French, German, Italian, and Spanish would be placed on a parity and each student would be required to have a reading knowledge of any two of them appears wiser and more logical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHANGING THE LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS | 2/8/1935 | See Source »

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