Word: topping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there are "far too many cases of venereal diseases at Harvard," Ernest Sachs '38 IM, spokesman for the health drive said last night that pressure will be brought to bear on students as well as University officers to stamp out the menace. "We're going to work from the top down and the bottom...
Whatever it may be in the theories of the President and his Fellows, Harvard is in fact an oligarchy. By the common practice at the nation's oldest university, matters of policy are settled at the top, and any voice which is suffered from the nether reaches of the faculty or the administration is in practice limited to an advisory function. This is true in the central governing body of the University; it is true within each separate department. It holds in general for most decisions on policy; it holds in particular for decisions on appointment and tenure...
...their decisions, or that points of view not in agreement with theirs will be excluded so that the department becomes narrow and biased. The current Feild controversy is a case in point. There is also a danger that the older men will hunt for academic lions to make the top of the department more imposing, while ignoring the greater needs down below. There is the further possibility that the central governing body of the University will impose its choices--arrived at variously--upon the supposedly autonomous departments...
Last week all the top Akron rubber executives were unanimous in believing that their new products would eventually surpass tires and tubes in dollar volume...
...tragedy was not ended. Instead of keeping the passengers in the stranded plane, Pilot Stead got them up on the slippery top of the fuselage. One by one they were washed off and drowned-all save Stead and an ex-convict. When he reached the bluff and safety in the dawn, the Douglas' cabin was still...