Word: impactions
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...Harvard University is "to advance and perpetuate learning." But Mr. Conant states explicitly that the first of these two objectives is the more important, and the practical impact of this preference, on faculty and on students alike, must mean a decisive change from the Harvard of Presidents Eliot and Lowell. Mr. Conant reaffirms the ideal of a faculty distinguished in teaching and in research; but his policy will be shaped to meet a faculty that cannot realize this double ideal, and it will be shaped on an acceptance of the prior claims of research. For the growth of the tutorial...
...newspapers an approach to the constitutionality of the NRA which was personal and striking, and it obscured the exact measure of the progress which the Minnesota mortgage decision has marked out. Before any talk of "liberals" and "conservatives" can be valid, before any real prophesies on Roosevelt's impact with the court can be enunciated, it will be necessary to examine the text of the Minnesota law and the grounds upon which the Supreme Court supported...
...secretary (Una Merkel) less mature, his scout and handy man (Raymond Hatton) less sly. For pleasure, Lawyer Simon likes a trip to Europe, but Lawyer Barringer goes to Miami, frequents greyhound races. Kruger acts as well as Barrymore but The Women in His Life lacks the cleverness and impact of Counsellor at Law. Good sound: Barringer's voice, hoarse with pneumonia and emotion, when he wakes up in a hospital after a drunken visit to the grave of his onetime wife...
...that it can be taught as a unified whole through a series of correct answers which dovetail with a series of questions. These colleges served the purpose of preparation for the vocational training of the universities. In England the pattern was changed, as other things were changed, by the impact of the Reformation; the universities became bundles of colleges, where wider intellectual curiosity was educated by tutors and reading rather than by a regular journey over a number of fixed bodies of fact...
Probably no period is so fruitful for the investigator of college policy than that attending the inauguration of a new president. The man who forms a connection with the editorial board at this time will have an unique opportunity to watch, and to comment upon, the impact of a new administration on the house plan and the tutorial system. Beyond this will be the continuous editorial field of national and international policy, which has assumed an especial prominence during the past few months. No one can be uninterested in these problems; those who combine an interest in them with...