Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strange, student-empty atmosphere. They will not have the advantage of constant undergraduate contact or of such groups as the Student Council Committee on Curriculum and Tenure to give them the worm's perspective. There are a few broad outlines they might well remember. Departments, often made rigid by custom and habit, could be kept alive by frequent conferences, with new ideas actually sought after. The large problem of faculty appointments needs attention--getting the right man to teach the right course, getting the great scholars and at the same time capable and inspiring instructors. Depredations of public service among...
...efforts in the "really high" OCS course there, to use the own expression. Carlson says in brief between-classes letter, "we get a brace at dawn and remain there we turn in for a well-earned sleep night." For the benefit of the the "brace" is the exaggerated of rigid attention required of Candidates at many schools where details are incubated...
Except for several exceptions, such as the TVA where the government management enters into annual agreements with its employees, the salary scales of government employees are unilaterally determined and rigid. As a result, a union in government must become a political pressure group to get higher wages through Congressional lobbying. This is not realistic; direct negotiations would result in much closer analysis of the case. The answer is to follow the lead of the British...
Alarmed by this breach of the Union's rigid taboos, Parliament stood ready to forbid further property acquisitions by non-whites in Natal. Behind the measure stood hardheaded, international-minded Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts. Said he: Durban must remain a "white city," rich Indians should invest in war loans...
...Rigid Routine. Walker rents a four room apartment in midtown Manhattan lives alone, surrounded by French and Civil War prints and hundreds of books...