Word: discuss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since this is my first annual report as President of the University, it may not be inappropriate if I discuss certain general problems in regard to our future. According to the account written nearly three hundred years ago, Harvard was founded "to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity." We can all agree that these few admirable words still describe our aims, although the methods of advancing learning and the modes of perpetuating it have changed greatly in the course of three centuries. Our Puritan ancestors thought of education and theology as inseparably connected. It is hard...
Government officials discuss all these difficulties frankly, but something has to be done to give the farmers money and keep them happy
...Britain and the United States. The attempt to placate England took the form of agreeing to limit her exports of cotton goods to India and making concessions in order to secure the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese treaty. Yesterday the United States was tackled, when the Japanese offered to discuss the naval ratios which may be revised when the Treaty of Washington expires in 1935; this, of course, gives her a quid pro quo, for in return for a free hand in the Far East, Japan can offer to waive demand for naval parity...
...Texans jumbled out of the hall, grumbling loudly. In Hollywood where he went to discuss a cinema contract plump Baritone Thomas said: "Sure, I walked out and I'd do it again. Singers must eat and as for myself I'm especially fond of eating...
Meanwhile in China the Panchen Lama, spiritual ruler of Tibet who was ousted in 1924, planned to go to Nanking this week for the meeting of the Kuomintang party and discuss possibilities of getting back his old post...