Word: statements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This statement was made in an interview yesterday by Vincent Sheean, author and foreign correspondent, in a plea for more intelligent study of world affairs. Students should prepare themselves for the crises in Europe and Asia by following the trends; and the colleges should help them by correlating the teaching of history more closely with contemporary happenings, Sheean said...
...scrub ladies once more found their nocturnal activities impeded by anxious young men decoding dispatches from London, Prague, Paris, Berlin, Bucharest. The President had to decide what to say, what to do. Since he must not say in public what he really thinks of Herr Hitler, his most important statement of the week was made through the icy Bostonian lips of Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles...
...Welles's word "temporary" neatly conveyed Mr. Roosevelt's wishful conviction that Herr Hitler's ultimate downfall is sure. The statement as a whole was preliminary notice, to be more thoroughly and forcefully worded this week, that the U. S. did not and would not soon recognize Czecho-Slovakia as part of Germany. Minister Wilbur Carr was told to close his legation in Prague, come home. But other branches of Franklin Roosevelt's Government had to face facts. They took steps which not only recognized Adolf Hitler as CzechoSlovakia's new ruler but dealt...
Recent controversies over permanent appointments at Harvard, largely based on personal issues, and the tendency for interested students to participate in the debate over appointments recalls Zimmerman's statement on the dangers of popularity to a balanced set of teaching standards...
...obvious, says Zimmerman, that the professional, scientific approach to a subject will prove less appealing to students than the highly-colored presentation of the grandstander. His statement implies that teaching popularity can quite easily become damaging to scientific integrity if allowed to become a predominant criterion of selection for permanent faculty posts...