Word: young
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bench of revered professors was forced to judge a trying case. But it performed its task well, and its decision should turn to a newer and somewhat brighter page for Harvard's young men. If its liberalism was at one point restrained, it must nevertheless be lauded for the comparatively happy mastery of a terrible ogre...
...tremendous size of the undertaking. But also because they were required to hand down a verdict on the hopes and fears of men with whom they no longer had anything in common. They, the judges, were famed professors, secure in position and reputation, and peculiarly exposed to conservatism. The young instructors before the bar were strugglers in a morass of uncertainty and ignorance about the future...
...report immediately sound the tonic note an clarion tones. The Committee has made a conscious effort to reduce the uncertainty, insecurity, and bewilderment which nag the shorten the period of probation before a permanent appointments. Such also is its formulation of definite and positive criteria for advancement. The young teacher will now know what to aim for, what to stress; and he need no longer cower so abjectly before the dread god Publication. Together these recommendations should effectively dull the Demolition sword suspended over the lower academic ranks...
...Committees does not seek in conceal that fact, but rather in make it clear, and especially in the competitors. It would hope that a selective system by which the University calls more than it can choose, and profits by their temporary services, may still afford a coveted opportunity to young scholars and teachers an opportunity to pursue the vocation of scholarship, to require experiences in teaching, and to establish themselves permanently in their profession whether at Harvard, or, through the good offices of Harvard, elsewhere...
...other night at a Count Basic dance, a rather merry young lady in black skunk furs, proceeded to climb onto the band stand, push tenor man Bud Tate out of his chair, sit down and clap her hands while cooing benevolently upon the audience. Aside from the fact that the look on Bud's face was funny as hell, a very serious question was brought up. Just what is the average leader going to do about the jitterbug? Benny Goodman recently wrote a long article proving that the jitterbugs caused his band to play as loudly as it does because...