Word: save
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Student Council last night appointed a sub-committee to draft a reply to the Committee to Save Harvard Education's petition, which asked the Council to "investigate the recent terminations of appointments of ten assistant professors...
Prominent undergraduates formed a "Student Committee to Save Harvard Education," got an approving send-off from the Crimson. Meanwhile Harvard's entire faculty began to hold extraordinary sessions behind closed doors to debate the affair. Conservative Harvard sentiment was summed up by Mathematics Professor Marshall Harvey Stone, son of U. S. Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone: "I believe the situation now existing is unhealthy to the point of gravity...
...short-wave radio programs. Classic is the accident which happened to famed British Neurologist Edgar Douglas Adrian, who once hitched an amplifier to a brain recorder, for a wholesale broadcast of brain waves to an auditorium full of his colleagues. To his horror the electroencephalograph blared out God Save the King. In confusion, half the neurologists rose, half remained seated...
Protestant aumônier général is France's most famed Protestant-tall, white-haired, meticulous Rev. Marc Boegner, 58, under whose leadership 1,000,000 French Protestants, representing all the big churches save the Lutheran (in Alsace) and the Baptist, were reunited last year after a century of schism. Half of Général Boegner's 1,000 pastors have been mobilized, and 75 installed as chaplains. For French Protestantism, mobilization posed a problem: how to keep its churches running. M. Boegner solved it by recalling aged ministers from retirement, giving pulpit...
...furnished in Europe. Never more unanimous was any group of students on any single issue; we are frankly determined to have peace at any price. We refuse to fight another balance of power war. We intend to resist to the utmost any suggestions that American intervention is necessary to "save civilization" or even to "save democracy and freedom". The newly formed American Independence League promises to express this determination in a constructive and vigorous fashion...