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...History Plan is designed to promote an integrated conception of the civilization which America as a whole has produced. Still more important is the National Scholarship Plan, which brings to Harvard prime academic products of the South, Middle West, and Far West. Its benefits are twofold: it increases the scope of Harvard's services to the country, and its strengthens college life by contacts with new and varied points of view. President Conant has laid down an excellent highway; it remains for the University to travel farther upon...
...partial solution will be provided by enlarging the scope of Plan B, or non-tutorial concentration. But at present the department does not plan to appoint enough new tutors to meet the demands of Plan A, and thus the men who remain will be greatly overburdened. Certainly it will be worthwhile, at least as a temporary measure. to enlist full professors as well as associates and assistants, thus spreading the burden of tutorial duty; and in the future care should be taken to avoid another sudden exodus from the ranks of any one department...
...promulgated by the central management group"; 2) to "permit regulation of the Western Electric Co. by the FCC as a public utility"; 3) to "fix temporary rates whenever it appears that the return on net book cost is excessive"; 4) "to regulate Bell System financing"; 5) "to limit the scope of Bell System activities to the communications field" (Bell System at various times has been involved in radio, cinema, artificial larynges, photoelectric eyes...
...bank examiner discovers that the secret of Lee's success is heavy bond forgery. It is the end of his career, but only half of What People Said. The rest of the story unfolds the scope of Lee's crookedness, which runs like a sulphurous fuse from Banker Norssex to the Progressive Governor's Mansion. According to Junior and his wife, it sputters just as stinkingly in the homes of the suddenly "unbearably honest" Oklaradans, since they tolerate a society that breeds embezzlers and hypocrites, as it breeds the unemployed who snarl so ominously in Athena...
...write in this new language. So the actual writing was done by Infeld. But it is not simply a ghostwritten job. Their friends, who did not know about the book for some time after it was actually under way, say that it is a "real project of collaboration." The scope, form and content of the book were agreed on and mapped out in careful detail...