Word: using
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...contacts with Harvard men," he added, "I never found reason to complain about their conduct or use any kind of force. They are the best-behaved people I know, and when there is a question of winning a girl, they always seem to be victorious...
Finland's demise can be used by Hitler to show other neutral countrys what happens to those who listen to appeals from London and Paris. Furthermore the Nazis can now use the peace in Russia to strengthen economic relations with that country, he said...
Skill in the use of the English language remains the hall-mark of an educated man. It is also about the most practical skill a college cab impart. Hence President Conant's avowal that everywhere "we hear complaints of the inability of the average Harvard graduate to write, either correctly of fluently," is not be silently shelved. As the "Times" stated recently, new influences of everyday life--the realistic but unrefined diction of the streets, the movies, the radio--have dulled American appreciation of good English. Harvard is facing the problem together with the rest of the country...
...because the Harvardman cannot turn a phrase with the artistry of a G.B.S., but because he is simply unable to say what he means at all, have there been complaints. Last spring the Committee on the Use of English advised automatic rejection by all departments of papers and examinations failing to reach a minimum standard of clear and lucid prose. Hence the new emphasis on "practical" writing--on English not as an artistic end but as a medium of common expression...
...traditional standards are to be preserved, the hard-hit Departments must make full use of their hard-won privilege. The Faculty Dean's report may have sounded the final gong on the tenure fight, but there still has been no pay-off. To use a phrase of Dean Ferguson's the matter of the frozen associate professorships is still "unfinished business...