Word: questioningly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Motives & New Goals. In Moving Forward Grandfather Ford rules out mere money making as a ruling motive for New America's tycoons. Leave that to the little fellows! "Working just to get more money is out of the question. . . . There are two things of which men grow weary in the material sphere?meaningless poverty and meaningless prosperity...
Postponed. Because Great Britain's Labor government is split on the question whether to experiment with an Empire tariff scheme (Scotland's MacDonald being pro and Yorkshire's Snowden con), the Prime Minister, in formally opening the Imperial Conference last week, weasled on its major economic problem, stressed "peace & disarmament" (the only field in which his cabinet has acquired kudos) and temporarily postponed proceedings by setting a future plenary conference session vaguely "some six or seven days hence...
...accompanying excerpts from his article on experimenting at Columbia College, Dean Herbert E. Hawkes discusses the question of a generalized educational program, designed for the benefit of the average group, as opposed to a specialized curriculum suited to the individual. As an example of the latter system, he cites the introduction of a free choice of electives at Harvard. Between this extreme and the cut and dried uniformity of college education as it existed not so long ago, there is, says Dean Hawkes, a "highest common factor of what any young man ought to know", which...
...plans proposed by the Yale Alumni Association to remove over-emphasis from football by limiting admission to only Yale graduates and undergraduates reflects a difficulty, that is equally pertinent at Harvard. Admittedly football especially and other sports in a minor way have become too much a question of finances. The spectacular show that a major athletic event evokes has tended to totally obscure the element of sportsmanship. At Harvard the question not only involves large gate receipts but also the matter of financing all athletic facilities that are open to members of the University...
Last year the team, on its Southern trip, traveled to Washington, D. C., Atlanta and Jacksonville. At the same time a group went west to debate the prohibition question in Indianapolis, Omaha and Chicago. The combined tour covered a distance greater than any trip taken by any other team of Harvard representatives, with the exception of the occasional Olympic entrants. This year debates will be held with Dartmouth at Hanover, and with other institutions in New York City, Canada and Florida. The annual meeting with Boston College will be given in Symphony Hall...