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Whether this shifting of the educational groundwork from the college to the high school is entirely justified or not, it is impossible to decide. At least Harvard's system offers that large majority of its students who do not enter graduate schools an education that goes deeper than just a broad background, though, the field may be narrower. Some things are so broad as to be flat...
Before the senior year most of men complete a major part of their concentration. They complete it without the benefit of the rich groundwork which the College considers necessary. The result is plain. Study of Bible, Shakespeare, and Authors degenerates to jumping over a barrier which stands before the degree. As such they are an example of a splendid theory abused by unwise practice...
...transport companies and a large investment concern into a cohesive, economical whole to the satisfaction of all concerned - bankers, stockholders, experts, personnel - was a superhuman task for any man to accomplish in one year, in a new industry. Graham Grosvenor, able graduate of Otis Elevator Co., had done the groundwork, defined the problems. Four months ago James Franklin Hamilton, a railroad man, was called in to head all Avco's transport operations which constitute one-third of the industry's total in miles flown (TIME, Dec. 30). Now Mr. Coburn is called in to tune up the manufacturing...
...told the House in substance only what he had already told U. S. and Canadian reporters, namely that: 1) The forthcoming Naval Disarmament Pact will be based upon the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact; 2) The tentative Anglo-U. S. naval understanding between himself and President Hoover is only a groundwork on which the Naval Pact proper will be built at the Five-Power Conference scheduled to meet in London next January; 3) In the Hoover-MacDonald statement of last month (from which the Prime Minister quoted copiously last week) the two Governments declared, "in a new and reinforced sense," that...
When Calvin Coolidge, then U. S. President, pushed aside Senate bill No. 3185 of the 69th Congress on June 24, 1926, and let it lie untouched before him until July 3, when the Congress adjourned, he little thought that he was laying the groundwork for a test case on a Presidential procedure more than a century old-the old procedure of Pocket Veto...