Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sister university, Harvard, have been rudely shattered. The Yale Daily News bewails the passage of our laissez-faire educational tradition with the coming of faculty scrutiny of History 1 notes. To our emancipated brethren of Yale, this seems a cross between the Inquisition and academic hand-holding. In view of the facts of the case, this comment is hardly just...
...During World War 1, U. S. Secretaries of State Bryan and Lansing constantly protested such searches as contrary to international law. In practice, neutrals have come to accept the hard-boiled point of view of Great Britain's Wartime Prime Minister David Lloyd George: that since the attitude of a belligerent is governed by "the exigencies of deadly strife, the country which is determined at all costs to remain neutral must be prepared to pocket its pride and put up with repeated irritations and infringements of its interests . . . and should the difficulties of neutrality prove too great...
...Pittman last week ran his committee straight down the track of what-is. He gave only a minimum of lip-service to Franklin Roosevelt's desire for a return to the indefinable fog of international law -where an energetic President could easily get lost from Congress' view. Then he set himself to his dual task: the drafting of a bill which would provide national security insurance against involvement in war, and the spiking of his opponents' guns...
...neutral correspondents also gave the impression that "this is a strange war." They heard little firing, saw few effects of it. They saw only one airplane encounter. They visited evacuated Saarbrücken, reported freight trains still hauling away coal, steel and manufacturing equipment (to the Ruhr) in full view of the French. On the Rhine they stood with German officers in full view of poilus on the other side fishing, sawing wood, washing clothes. They heard stories and saw signs of badinage between the lines. Net effect of what they wrote was to underscore Senator Borah's amazing...
...students should welcome formation of the resoundingly titled "Committee to Save Education at Harvard". First, it shows an immediate awareness by students that the recent abolition of the middle rank of teachers directly affects them. Second, it is the nucleus of a group representing the undergraduate point of view on certain apparent changes in the teaching set-up. And the committee has stated that it aims to include all organizations whose members, as students of Harvard, are affected by the University's educational policies...