Word: resultant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...developed into a great business racket which is a menace to sound education. They have preyed upon students by offering them a third-rate education for so long that the latter have become deluded into regarding them as an integral part of the Harvard system. To get any real result from a college education, both in mental training and in the assimilation of material, a man must do his own thinking...
Undoubtedly this approach, worked out only after two years of conferences and discussion, will prove very significant. It may well be the dawn of a new era in training men for government position. But the more immediate result will be the graduates of the School, the social engineers of the future. The eyes of the nation are focused on these men, and it is their job to carry the torch, to bring the light. It is up to them to be the trained city-managers, the heads of government bureaus, the professors of political economy of tomorrow. Their...
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...
...blanks. Only in this way can the innumerable petty and some times gross misfires in the Freshman curriculum be called to the attention of next year's class. Only by your studied answers can we offer to the Class of '43 a heritage of counsel which cannot help but result in more mature use of Harvard's varies and vacillating electives...
Typically DeMille in its lavishness, Union Pacific officially cost Paramount "more than a million dollars," though it did not, despite Hollywood wags, cost more than the railroad itself. DeMille budgets are the result of an overmastering passion for detail and a policy of shooting everything in sight. Of the 205,000 feet of film exposed for Union Pacific, DeMille and his cutter, Anne Bauchens, threw away all but 12,158. On the set DeMille manipulates his mobs through a special public-address system. When unit directors go to remote locations, he stays in Hollywood, keeps in constant touch by telephone...