Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are times when the President of the U. S. has to defer most serious matters because he has a common cold. Last week was such a time for Franklin Roosevelt. He took the case out of the hands of his physician, Rear Admiral Ross Mclntire, and downed a big dose of castor oil. "Make it short, boys," was his plea at his subsequent press conference. But before the cold took hold, he devoted a press conference to Taxes and Economy. Said...
...black skunk furs, proceeded to climb onto the band stand, push tenor man Bud Tate out of his chair, sit down and clap her hands while cooing benevolently upon the audience. Aside from the fact that the look on Bud's face was funny as hell, a very serious question was brought up. Just what is the average leader going to do about the jitterbug? Benny Goodman recently wrote a long article proving that the jitterbugs caused his band to play as loudly as it does because they screamed so loudly the band couldn't be heard. Mebbe...
...petition states: "In view of the facts that Granville Hicks has smply demonstrated his distinction as a critic and teacher, that he has contributed all this year to the curricular and extra-curricular life of Harvard and that he represents a serious critical point of view not represented elsewhere in the Harvard community, we, students and officers of Harvard University, without necessarily subscribing to his political philosophy, petition that he be seriously considered for any suitable teaching appointment available at Harvard in the fields in which he is trained, and that, if no such appointments are available, the possibilities...
That the situation is serious is obvious: overloading of tutorial staffs, lowered intellectual standards, strained budgets, and charges that Harvard "starves" a particular branch of study, result. To offer a solution is far more difficult, for floaters always have and probably always will exist. But certainly it should be possible, through more conscientious Freshman guidance and through the establishment of broader survey courses, to provide those men capable of choosing their best field the information which they need. Broad knowledge of little depth is eminently desirable for most men at the Freshman level, for with certain exceptions, only those Sophomores...
...social affairs must be so arranged as to suit all tastes, and if there is a large body of students chafing at the bit, impatient with House dances of the simpler sort, then the demand must at least be considered. How wide the appeal would be, how serious or how ephemeral the challenge to Harvard traditions, how practicable the affair from a mechanical point of view -- these are questions which the dance committees must decide. "De gustibus non disputandum est," and it may well be that an institution long discussed with a sneer can serve a useful and desirable purpose...