Word: fellowed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Wrote the President: "Every stout heart that has advanced the frontiers of human knowledge by exploration has been accompanied . . . by destiny as an unseen fellow wayfarer...
...brilliant, if pitiless," U. S. war industry had all but disappeared. The War Department had an M-Day plan (which the Nazis had borrowed) for mobilizing industry, but M-Day had not arrived-the U. S. was arming for defense, not war. So Bill Knudsen and his six fellow commissioners had to build a strange, specialized plane-ship-&-munitions economy inside and alongside a vast bread-&-butter economy, which had to go on working. The President had given the Commission no legal power to do anything. All they could do was advise, suggest, request-no more. They did not even...
...quote from President Butler's own report for 1926-27, "The scholar who in sincerity and knowledge criticizes or dissents from some well-established institution, idea or practice . . . is as much entitled to that dissent as his fellow who defends what this scholar condemns. This is one of the hardest lessons for public opinion in a democracy to learn. The persecuting instinct is so deep and so widespread and the passion for uniformity and conformity is so strong that many a missile will continue to be leveled at the devoted head of any scholar who dissents from a prevailing...
...assistant professors would not seriously affect undergraduate instruction. This was figuring pretty close in Slavic, but at that time it did seem just possible to fill the gap created by Simmons' departure. Over the summer, however, two new developments put the Slavic department out on a limb: a Teaching Fellow who had been counted on to share part of the load left for a job in Washington; and the War Department sent five army officers to Harvard to get instruction in Russian, demanding a great deal of the time of one member of the small Slavic staff. The result...
Meanwhile Lader, who had stood by innocently amused, offered solace to his fellow CRIMSON editor, as the policeman tried to placate the tempestuous victim...