Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course it is not possible to include the ballots of the undergraduate and alumni bodies in decisions of minor importance. But certainly all members of the faculty, professors, assistant professors and instructors should sit in faculty meetings and have some voice in affairs. Small wonder the less distinguished members of that august body are dissatisfied when they are ignored! Small wonder they pack up and go to a university which does not refuse to recognize their potentialities by a guarantee that they will be maintained for a reasonable length of time. Yale cannot afford to sacrifice good teachers to other...
...alteration within Yale: relaxation of the departmental system. Instead of a hopelessly garbled collection of divisional bodies working against one another for "favors" from the university financiers, we must have a means of adjusting these incongruous elements to one another. And much in this regard depends upon those who sit in the chairs of the deans! These officers must exercise their power to co-ordinate the separate departmental divisions. They must be more than nominal supervisors of the system. Their authority must be recognized. The Freshman Dean, in particular, must have the support, financial and otherwise, promised when his office...
...members of the faculty . . . should sit in faculty meetings and have some voice in affairs. Small wonder the less distinguished members of that august body are dissatisfied when they are ignored...
There is nothing startlingly original in "The Cat and the Canary." Its originality lies chiefly in the fact that not a single one of the hackneyed, conventional thriller devices is omitted. If we could sit back coldly and explain to those in the few rows within whispering distance that, technically speaking, it is not a very good play, we might not be so very far wrong. Despite our utmost efforts, however, we find ourselves constantly on the edge of our seats, on the very verge of yelling to the heroine in distress, "Hey! Look behind you!" So what...
West of the White House, in the city of Washington, rises the great pile that is the State, War and Navy Building. Therein sit two gentlemen who are in charge of the U. S. policy in the Far East. One of them is the Secretary of State, whose subordinates at Tokyo, at Peking, post to do his bidding. The other is the Secretary of War, whose subordinate at Manila functions as the Governor General of the Philippines...