Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CHARLESTON, S.C.--the flagship "Philadelphia" taking President Roosevelt on a Caribbean cruise tonight steamed toward the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The cruiser was making 22 knots and was expected to reach Puerto Rican waters tomorrow night or Tuesday. Fishing there was excellent and the President looked forward to trying his luck...
...conference between the nation's highly individualistic No. 1 Businessman and its highly individualistic President has often been rumored before. Now that it was definitely scheduled it served to symbolize as dramatically as possible the conciliatory feelings toward U. S. Business which the President expressed in his Fireside Chat last fortnight. It also served to launch the U. S. press on a guessing game. Best guess as to why Gracie Hall Roosevelt-a onetime Comptroller of Detroit, who now spends most of his time in New York-had given the invitation was that the President considered it more tactful...
...their goal is first ascertaining the student's ability and knowledge and then helping him to use them. Their function is not nursemaid nor solely friend, but guide in all academic matters. To show him how to study, to interest him in the University life, to direct him toward a field of concentration; these the advisers should be expected to do. For the emotionally maladjusted they cannot be directly responsible, but when such cases arise they must at once inform Dean Leighton, who should make use of Dr. Bock, P.B.H., and even the neglected Placement Office...
...rare biological element of appeal, and insight into the total personality. To obtain response, an adviser must set up confidence through frankness, through fixing each man's aim and helping him to reach it. He ought also to gauge as best he can the attitude of the advisce toward his new environment. With these standards raised, there lingers the question of whom to select. Certainly not those full professors who are unable to give at least three hours a week to the task, or who are too far apart in sympathy from Yardling youth; not fresh-from-college graduate students...
...intellectual guidance in modern education. With President Conant himself saying that "we need to have a corps of advisers who can give more time to the work and who can study the complex problems involved," it is right that Dean Leighton has made the first and worthy move toward remodeling Harvard's worst-fitting garment...