Word: questions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Torbie Macdonald will not be in the starting lineup and is even a doubtful participant in the game. He returns to practice today, but when he will be ready for heavy contact work is undetermined. The other Harvard question mark, tackle Mose Hallett, was jogging around the Field House during much of the afternoon and should be able to relieve Vern Miller for a few minutes against Princeton...
Last night similar meetings were held at the Union, on the question of "What Caused the Constitution?" and at Dunster House, where "Wait Whitman's America" was treated. The speakers were Henry Nash Smith and Charles Miller, American Civilization counselors...
...result of a choice among alternatives. At least one alternative, it must be evident, there is. The University may seek to assure itself only that it is going to be able to pay the prospective appointee his salary as an associate professor, leaving to the future the question of whether it either can or wants to appoint him to a full professorship. On financial grounds there would appear to be little to choose between the two policies. The choice, essentially, is an educational...
...What is in question is solely the appointment of a larger number of associate professors to compete as equals, over a period of years, for a lesser number of full professorships. Under such a policy, no one would be tagged as destined from the outset to be given a full professorship, and none need be tagged as destined to be denied it. Under such a policy, disappointments when they come would be gradual, and would be founded at least on permanence rather than prediction. We cannot believe that the avoidance of such disappointments ought to be the lodestar...
Whether the war boom is a stimulant that will give Business a lift toward permanent recovery or will only give it a hangover, is a prime question for economists to argue. Last week in an address to industrial leaders summoned by General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan Jr., in Manhattan, Dr. Harold G. Moulton, pudgy president of Brookings Institute explained his view...