Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole course. The faculty committee, and in particular Dean Landis, are to be congratulated for resolutely resisting the temptation to initiate a four year course. Such a change would probably have enabled the faculty haphazardly to pile more work on the student rather than spurring professors to make better use of the student's time by more careful organization of courses...
Public funds are necessary for maintaining high clinical standards, and the least burdensome method of obtaining these is a small general health tax, such as is in use abroad. But this involves the question of socialized medicine, a radical specter that haunts the dreams of the small but intrenched group controlling the policies of the American Medical Association. These policies are those which were adequate half a century ago, before the population had mushroomed and the physician in private practice could fulfill its needs. They have consistently opposed the development of systems of medical care which threaten to minimize...
...superficial coaching in the dramatic, narrative, and like forms of composition could well be eliminated, and instead more time given to the fundamental art of exposition. It is more to the point of a Harvard degree that the undergraduate know how to compile bibliographies, take notes, organize papers, and use a simple, clear style than to imitate Hemingway and Joyce. If Harvard desires well-rounded graduates, full of distribution and concentration, it must establish a course in practical writing for Freshmen and urge, at least, the taking of some composition course...
...section of Franklin Roosevelt's new pump-priming program that Congress has passed on is a law allowing RFC to use $1,500,000,000 for loans of almost any sort. Last week, therefore, RFC Chairman Jesse Jones took to the air to invite businessmen to "come and get it." This they did with a rush: in Manhattan, for example, the Hotel New Yorker politely but firmly asked a bureau of the Smaller Business Association of New York to leave after 600 would-be borrowers had stormed it one morning in search of RFC loan application blanks. Nonetheless, Jesse...
...modern holding company pyramid, as in a modern apartment house, when the elevators break down there are always the stairs. Last week it looked as though Financier Robert Young had made use of the backstairs of the oldtime Van Sweringen holding company pyramid...