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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps the chief obligation accompanying President Conant's nationalization of Harvard is the duty of University Hall to inform itself regarding schools and scholars in various sections of the country. This means that accurate knowledge must be secured of regional marking standards, College Board training, and teaching emphasis, in order that school achievement may be translated into Harvard grades. It means that Dr. Gummere must be given enough assistants to determine by interview the personality of every applicant without recourse to welfare agencies or university clubs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDUCATION IN THE YARD | 4/27/1938 | See Source »

...should inform the American people that, proud-as you should be proud-of the great moral and social advances which have been made under your leadership, you are willing now to consolidate these and attempt no more until your Cabinet, your Congressional leaders and you agree that the Nation can foot the bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Pitching in a Pinch | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...result of the hearings held before me on March 11, 18, and 21, 1938, I regret to inform you that I feel obliged to remove, and do hereby remove you as member and chairman of the board of the Tennessee Valley Authority. This removal is to become effective as and from March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Morgan Out, Morgan In | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

Thus last week wrote RFC Chairman Jesse Jones to inform the nation's banks that RFC's 32 offices (with about $1,500,000,000 in the kitty) are once more open for business. The riotous Little Businessmen's Conference in Washington last month called loudest for increased credit facilities. Last week Jesse Jones revealed that the day after Franklin Roosevelt untied RFC's purse strings, it received loan applications from 200 small businessmen. RFC now welcomes such applications no matter how small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Government's Week: Mar. 14, 1938 | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Three years ago last fall, Freshman football coach J. Neil Stahley gathered his first Yardling squad about to inform them that in the future Eli Yale would take his share of gridiron beatings for a change...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skip Stahley, Coach of Three Sports, Trains Future Varsity Gridmen Well | 3/10/1938 | See Source »

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