Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...especially, is that it is a service institution. It exists solely to satisfy the needs and the desires of the University members, who range from timid freshmen to octogenarian professors. Yet the source of a university library's existence is also the source of its undoing. For the library staff must solve the problem of serving distinctly separate portions of that membership whose interests are as widely divergent as those of the freshman and the professor...
...comment upon the letter of Professor J. A. McLaughlin appearing in your columns today? It annoys me from several points of view. Isn't it the boast of Harvard's staff that "we teach our students to think for themselves"? Then why be snippy when actually...
...summer of 1937 James had his first taste of war when he was sent out to China to help cover the Sine-Japanese conflict. That December when the Japanese army was threatening Nanking, the American embassy staff and all other nationals were evacuated to the Panay...
Certainly a member of the Harvard teaching staff should know that experience is the greatest teacher. But it is evident that Professor McLaughlin learned little from that most bitter lesson, the World War. Indeed, he rushes blindly into the most high-flown assumptions, such as the belief that truth travels with the British navy. Before making such indiscreet statements, he might well study the historical background of this nation, and re-examine the problems of today in its light. He would then find that the propagandists of the last war wrote better than they knew, that the only war this...
Harlow displayed his confidence in the team by denying any immediate lineup changes. Until yesterday it was feared that Harlow would be forced to make one switch in order to meet the loss of Burgy Ayres at center. But cheering news was released yesterday when the medical staff announced that Burgy had suffered only a muscle strain and not a dislocated shoulder or collarbone...