Word: systemized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the last three years the physical stature of incoming students has greatly improved, the reason for which Fradd thinks lies in the fact that the system of corrective exercises, adopted at many colleges, male and female, has also been taken up in a large number of preparatory schools, to which reports on graduates are sent each year by the Department...
...rapidly becoming a Harvard institution. More than that, it saw a triumph of a principle proclaimed since the beginning of the controversy by critics of the Administration's tenure policies. The Faculty's resolution--cautious and ambiguous though its terminology may have been--constituted an official sanction of the system of frozen associate professorships...
Enough machinery has now been projected to set the whole tenure business in smooth-running order. Frozen associates have been accepted in the official vocabulary. In addition, a system of loaning and borrowing professorships among departments--a substitute for the President's Fund--is being worked out. These two plans supply ample basis for a great deal of flexibility in Harvard's promotion scheme. It now remains to be seen, however, to what use the Administration will put its new weapons. The true test will be the results of the appointment negotiations which are now taking place between individual departments...
...northeastern provinces. First stand would be made in a line of pillboxes and blockhouses running from Zwolle south through Nijmegen all the way to Maastricht, behind the Ijssel and Maas (Meuse) Rivers (see map). While this line held, the civilian population would be taken behind a second defense system, called the Grebbe Line, extending southeastward to Nijmegen from Eem on the Ijssel Lake (the diked, reclaimed Zuider...
Federation. "There are some who believe that the new order will only come through surrender in some measure by the nations of their sovereign rights, in order to clear the way for some more organic union. But if it is our hope to create a more truly international system out of independent States, we must learn the lessons of the past. No paper plan will endure that does not freely spring from the will of the peoples who alone can give it life. . . . There is a cynical saying that it is often the task of the wise to repair...