Word: responded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Post's taboos (par for middle-class conception of decency anywhere), complain that in its non-fiction no intellectual rivers are ever set afire, in its fiction no Buddenbrooks appear among the Clarence Buddington Kellands. This is old stuff to Editor Stout's staff. Nowadays they respond simply by handing out a reprint of Bernard DeVoto's sensible piece on Writing for Money, printed in the Saturday Review last year...
Those departments not aware of the importance of an examination which will force the student to think, not to respond automatically with a catalogue of facts, and which will be marked by fair rules would learn much by looking at the methods of the History and Economics departments. In Economics A, for example, two or three meetings of the twenty odd instructors are held to work out questions and rough answers. They are especially concerned with the kind of answer they will get from the student and form their questions on this basis. The department rightfully prides itself...
There are a certain minority of light-minded play-fellows who fail to respond to such treatment, however, and these present the problem. For it is from their ill-intentioned antics that Harvard gets unfavorable publicity among the population, and those who are in the lime-light in an unpleasant way give people who resent the presence of a great University in their midst their evil impression. It seems obvious, then, that the University should deal summarily with men who fail to accept the responsibility of giving Harvard a fair name in the community...
...rest, the vast majority of men who are proud to be here, and willing to show their pride by the example they set, no further supervision, either from the authorities or the student body, is needed. These men are more than likely to respond to attacks on Harvard, from within and without, by showing an esprit de corps worthy of the University and by a way of living worthy of their own ideals in coming here...
...task is to try to increase the use of private capital to increase employment. . . . Private enterprise, with co-operation on the part of Government, can advance to higher levels of industrial activity than those reached earlier this year. . . . Such advance will assure balanced budgets. . . . If private enterprise does not respond, Government must take up the slack. ..." On the subject of taxes, the President in effect reiterated what his Secretary of the Treasury had said a few days earlier (see p. 16), in proposing to remove "unjust provisions." He also warned that "modifications adequate to encourage productive enterprises, especially...