Word: uncertainities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although Mr. Conant has fully recognized this problem, his recommendations are vague: "Although we live in a world whose whole future seems uncertain, we must engage in long-range planning. . . . We cannot leave the future to take care of itself." Naturally Harvard must be as foresighted as possible, and not mistake the stagnant Forties for the roaring Twenties. But if "long-range planning" as envisaged by Mr. Conant involves any retardation of Harvard's present educational progress, it defeats its own purpose. For the quantity of endowments a university receives depends not only on economic conditions, but also...
Koenigswald and Weidenreich agree that the Java "ape man" as well as the Peking man is definitely human, and that the Peking Man specimens are probably older chronologically (from geological evidence). It remains uncertain which of the two is the more primitive from the point of view of evolution. That question may be answered if, on some happy day, anthropologists stumble on a common Pliocene Age ancestor of China's and Java...
...Heretofore it has been the custom of most donors to stipulate that the principal of their gift be left intact; but this is precisely what Mr. Hutchins's plan would eliminate. His theory is that the endowed college should maintain its present prestige instead of sacrificing it to an uncertain future in which inflation may wipe out all its holdings. The dove in the hand is better than the sparrow on the roof. Apres nous le deluge...
...field, was Sir Vagabond's ultimate goal a stead-fast symbol of safety was this man. Steel clashed on steel, the horns of battle did boom out loud and clear, and the knight with heaving breath and Herculean effort did clear himself a breach across the way, did with uncertain step attain the white cupola...
...interests of something much more prosaic, Franklin Roosevelt last week gave the nod to faithful Mr. Edison. Democratic politicos in New Jersey (including, of all people, Jersey City Boss Frank Hague) have put New Dealish Charlie Edison up for Governor. Lately they have told the President in no uncertain terms that as a candidate next fall Mr. Edison would be sadly handicapped if he were passed over in his own department. The President heeded, last week announced that the son of late, great Thomas Alva Edison will be the 45th Secretary of the Navy. The wise in Washington...