Word: suggested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present system is haphazard, and with steadily increasing laxity of requirements in the college itself, there is immediate need for a Committee whose province should be first, to examine carefully and report on the several standards in the different classes of the country's schools, and second, to suggest means whereby individual Freshmen can receive really valuable advice on the problems arising because of their preparation...
Originally taken down as stenographic notes at Pareto's lectures, The Mind and Society reveals its origin by its formlessness, by its expositions abandoned half-complete, its digressions that often interrupt its arguments. Occasionally it reveals a trained lecturer's wit, and frequent sardonic asides suggest the old professor addressing students who have not won his respect. No democrat, Pareto would not simplify his thought for the masses, felt that the secrets of history were harmful to most. In his will were rigid provisions that no popular exposition of his ideas should preface his books: "My sole interest...
...most leaderless, spontaneous, anonymous revolutions of all time," and of the hourly dissolution of the monarchy that suddenly fell apart like a gigantic One-Hoss Shay. Again & again Author Chamberlin introduces incidents and documents to prove how little the ruling class understood what was happening, and to suggest the excitement and good nature of the revolution. Only after the overthrow of Kerensky's Provisional Government and the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks does the narrative darken, become more ominous. Then casualty lists, accounts of atrocities replace the accounts of the first enthusiastic confusion. Maintaining an unflinching detachment, Author...
...Harvard man may, as you suggest, be proud of his right to display the emblem of his University, but there is no right to display the corporate Seal of the President and Fellows. The Seal happens to contain the emblem but it is not itself the emblem. The Seal has no meaning whatever except to indicate that the document to which it is attached is an authentic, corporate...
...trying to undermine and destroy our present form of government." How, exactly, does such a charge, if true, concern Harvard's acceptance? Her interest is in John Reed, not the committee, and this would be true if the latter had been composed of bond salesmen. We would suggest to Mr. Fish that the only legitimate point of attack in the whole affair is the portrait itself. Is it good enough? As a classmate of the original, his opinion of it should be worth something. --New York Herald-Tribune...