Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Faced with the problem of decreased patronage and with the added problems of tremendous fixed charges, the industry was forced both to reduce theatre admission prices and to attempt to improve the quality of entertainment in the effort to attract more people into the theatres. To accomplish this, the producers invited the public with glamorous and more glamorous personalities. Producers discovered that the creation of such personalities was a costly process and that, moreover, once created, they were always open to the predatory raids of competing producers...
...direct one's self into constructive channels, but keeping off the mudbanks on either side requires a code of one's own, which can be acquired only through severe testing. So the members of the Class of 1934 should keep their eyes on the things which they wish to accomplish, making use of practical methods to obtain them, and being ever ready to modify or change those ends if they are honestly convinced that this is the best course...
...accomplish this he has started a thorough reorganization of the faculty. With this importation of new blood, he has conducted a survey of their working hours to allow them more time for research. The difficulty lies in finding the proper equilibrium between teaching and research. During the next few years, the tutorial system which is now ready to emerge form the experimental stage must stand severe testing to put it into its proper relation with course work. It would seem likely that tutorial work will soon be restricted chiefly to men of more then average ability and that there...
Taking drastic steps to accomplish their purpose, the Anti-NSL League kidnapped Alan K. Philbrick '35 yesterday afternoon only to have him slip out of their hands a few hours later...
...safety of the building his disposition finds more equable surroundings. To his class in Music 4 he simplifies and explains the technicalities of the great composers from Bach to Stravinsky. To accomplish this, he uses both his skill as a pianist and his serious, but rather whimsical, method of lecturing. The result is a satisfactory course for men who want to gain an appreciation of music. He may be criticized for his lack of poise on the lecture platform, which characterizes a Merriman' or an Kittredge, but his fortunately is subsidiary part of his teaching...