Word: assignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greece has been redeemed by the Greeks who fought and bled for every inch of it, and not "through the benevolence of the Great Powers." You must be naive indeed to assign such idealism to these powers, who, for their gain, have created in Greece such internal antagonisms and hatreds that it will take many generations to wipe out. It is now history how during the War they financed Venizelos to set up a rebel government in Saloniki by promising that great diplomat territories which they had already assigned by secret treaty to Russia. After the War, in the Greek...
...Especial emphasis was placed up on the Houses as educational units in an endeavor to assign as many men as possible to those places where they could work with tutors living in their respective Houses. . . . As a result of giving more attention to fields of concentration and tutorial quotas both on the part of the Central Committee and the Masters, the distribution was carried out in such a way that over 80 per cent of the men could be tutored in their respective Houses...
...Reading assignments have been announced in most courses by now. It is impossible on the whole to evaluate the worth of the work allotted. However one pernicious habit continues. Men giving courses still assign a book written by themselves as the major, or one of the important texts in the course...
Perhaps it might seem too much to assign to the Committee the burden of an entire policy, yet, in selecting a coach, it will be committing itself to a definite stand on this fundamental issue. In choosing the man it will be choosing the policy. For he who comes to take charge at Soldiers Field next fall must come with a clearly mapped outline of the restrictions which Harvard imposes on its desires for victory. Such restrictions there must be. Harvard must not acquire through its new coach a system which places the almighty football on a sacred altar...
...indiscriminately from the Faculty, changed at frequent intervals, receiving no extra remuneration or alleviation of University duties for their advisorial work, the majority of the advisors have neither the qualifications nor the interest which are essential if there is to be effective guidance. Not only are too many Freshmen assigned to the same man, but there is no attempt to assign the newcomers interested in some particular subject to an advisor who is connected with that field...