Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...UNIVERSITY, AS UNDERSTOOD BY RESIDENTS THIS COMMUNITY. ARTICULATE MINORITY OF FACULTY RESENTS ANY ADMINISTRATOR WHOM THEY CANNOT CONTROL. . . . THIS OLD GUARD FACULTY OLIGARCHY DOMINATED UNIVERSITY BEFORE DOCTOR WERNETTE'S ARRIVAL, SO HE HAD TWO STRIKES ON HIM FROM START. THE UNANIMITY OF OPINION EXPRESSED IN DEAN'S TELEGRAM TO YOU SUGGESTS A SHOTGUN WEDDING...
...critic of the President's Commission (see above), Taylor never complains about swollen enrollments. He wants as many students as he can get: "If they want to come, tell them to get in touch with us- telephone, write, or send a telegram." For adult students he can't accommodate, he has set up four "neighborhood colleges" in Louisville public libraries. He has plans for putting college courses on records to be broadcast, has visions of 30,000 students taking a single course all at one time. "Colleges which persist in lecturing to small groups," says...
...Donald M. Wallace wrote to one of them, "should listen to all prominent politicians and attach himself to none; he should always be in the orchestra stalls, but never jump on the stage." Some could not resist jumping. In 1899, the Paris correspondent reported Queen Victoria's indiscreet telegram to her embassy, expressing horror at the verdict against Alfred Dreyfus. The exclusive story would have created an international sensation, but the dispatch was killed. "It was not for the Times," says the history, "to indulge in such triumphs...
...charge of retrenching was hefty Edd Johnson, a veteran newsman (New York World-Telegram, Cottier's, CBS, OWI), who returned a year ago from three years as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Sun syndicate. Last summer he was hired by the New Republic for eight weeks of editorial doctoring, stayed on as managing editor at Straight's request. Johnson started to trim the editorial budget from $420,000 a year to $240,000. Then Straight asked that a group of lower-bracket employees (19, said Johnson) be lopped off. Johnson countered: Why not get rid of some...
...explanatory telegram received by the CRIMSON last night disclosed that the retiring editor wrote his column "on application of the Kinsey Report to College." Two curt phrases told the rest of the story...