Word: restrictions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University might well consider such a proposal, but whatever it might care to do along this line it should certainly take definite steps to restrict the patenting for private gain of all work done in laboratories under its control. It is an institution for the dissemination and increase of human knowledge and welfare, and should see that its members properly appreciate the spirit under which it grows and prospers...
...that public opinion in their communities is definitely opposed to any considerable increase in the national debt, the administration should be wary of imposing further taxes or increasing to any great extent the already heavy burden borne on wearying shoulders. Their overwhelming condemnation of government restriction of crops, government control of private business, and the policy of exempting the new federal agencies from the civil service rules, should be taken as fair evidence of the temper of public opinion. They realize that no government can restrict involving the expenditure of over six billion dollars a year while the revenue barely...
...residing on Mill Street are deprived of their lawful rights to enter homes without serious inconvenience because of the promiscuous closing of highways in that vicinity, it is ordered that the Chief of Police refuse permission to the authorities of Harvard College to block off Mill Street and thereby restrict its use, for public travel during Class Day exercises...
This concession the CWA was unwilling to make, although many other donors in times less trying than these have made them. It is unfortunate that a satisfactory compromise could not have been struck between the government's desire to restrict its grant to students otherwise unable to remain in college and the University's desire to administer its own undergraduate aid. But Harvard's demand was made on the basis of a highly satisfactory record in meeting its special problems; the demand of the CWA, on the other hand, was largely a failure to recognize that the most general...
...When, if ever, the government is able to restrict the scope of its activity it will be necessary and advisable to drop many of these employees. A percentage of them, however, are admirably fitted for a public career and should be kept on. The government should make a practice of recruiting this type in ordinary times. But how can this be accomplished...