Word: takes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Council has suggested two alternatives to the Administration's present course: the setting up of a "President's Fund" to take care of pressing short-run departmental needs; and the appointment of associate professors even without the mathematical certainty that they will be promoted to full professorships. These proposals are neither impractical nor startling. Both were implied in the Committee of Eight's Report, and the "frozen" associate professorships have been urged by the Crimson, the Progressive and the high-sounding "Committee to Save Harvard Education." Skirting the broad issue of dictatorship (however benevolent) versus democracy in Harvard's administration...
...football team. One of his jobs as a reporter was to interview Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Bill, married only a few days, took his bride along to impress her. But Stefansson was irritable. Said he: "If you are any kind of reporter you won't need to take notes." Thereupon he tore through a staccato monologue, dismissed his interviewer...
Hopping mad, Bill Cunningham went back to the office to write a blistering story about Stefansson. On the way, his wife handed him some sheets of paper. It was the interview, taken down in shorthand behind the explorer's back. Bill had not known his wife could take shorthand, because he had never met her (except for a few minutes before a football game) until the day they were married. He had called her by long-distance telephone at her home in Attleboro, Mass., to transact some other business, ended by asking her to marry...
House dining hall privileges for Freshmen will be continued this year beginning today. Freshmen will be allowed to take one meal a week as the guest of an upperclassman in any one of the Houses...
...without profit, can we lay the menace of their poisonous ideology. Meanwhile the rising generation gives scant evidence of readiness to assume America's fair share in the defense of our civilization. Even those exposed to education incline to turn from the leadership appearing in the university world and take up the chant of the politicians: Be selfish. Be short sighted. Be cowardly. Be American! So may we demonstrate that the life of one complacent American is more precious than the lives of many Europeans who have mustered the courage to stand at the barrier...