Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yesterday morning's editorial on the munitions question was a step towards the proper realistic point of view, but the whole popular pacifist balloon of ballyhoo needs more pricking than that. The current tendency to make black-bearded goats out of the armament maker appears to have anesthetized the national press; the mouthed righteousness of the political idealists in their scramble to mulct credit from the cause of peace has dangerously perverted a constructive situation into a heydey for the Hearsts. Internationalism may or may not be born to blush unseen in this ugly age: no question...
...initial step to eliminate the artificial barriers created by the current system of numerous departments, Dr. Conant advocates a corps of "roving" professors unrestricted by departmental limits and petty duties. "Such professors without portfolio," he says, "would have o be recruited from scholars who had already proven their worth not only as productive thinkers but as stimulating personalities." Though Harvard by no means intends to de-emphasize the research which it must be the duty of every higher institution to promote, she nevertheless seems to be edging away from the professor who delves into research to the disadvantage...
...gradation of courses was suggested as a cure for the alleged ills of this branch of the English department. The editor seems to forget a few points. 1. In gaining admission to English 22 and English A-2 (which courses would probably be called the "first" step) the selection would still rest with the instructor; obviously only a part of those applying would have been measured by the English A-1 yardstick. (2) In the three "higher" courses, 12, 31, and 5, the applicant is likely to find a gradation rule a boomerang. As it is now, the instructors...
...pickup in the demand for used steam shovels. A bright spot in new machinery is the traveling crane trade. Higher labor costs have sent businessmen into the machine market but the rise has largely been the result of better business sentiment, heartening industrialists to the point where they will step out and buy modern equipment...
...provision of N. R. A. at stake is no minor portion of the recovery legislation. True, that insistence on the right of labor to organize in non-company unions may not be as important to business revival as certain other measures. Nevertheless, it would be a distinct step backward in our progressive legislation if labor is to be abandoned to the mercies of company unionism...