Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roback's last two chapters re titled "Can Personality be Changed" and "Remedying Certain Defects." Bearing, posture, gait, modulation and intention of the voice "enter into the total personality picture", but practice and exercise can accomplish much Dr. Roback makes numerous general suggestions, but his book is more for the student than for the subject. Perhaps the most skillful thing which the Doctor has done has been to make the layman know the meaning of the technical terms before he gets to them. This, and the easy conversational style in which it is written, make "Personality" good reading, even...
...Knight Procter's words, "to provide for and carry on investigation, research and development, both medical and scientific, for the benefit of children, including investigation and research with reference to children's diseases, problems of children's nursing and children's social welfare." To accomplish all that and, further, to make Cincinnati the world's pediatric centre, he created a $3,800,000 endowment. Director in charge of the whole is Professor Albert Graeme Mitchell, 42, University of Cincinnati pediatrician. Professor Mitchell has an able staff...
...statement: "The [General] Staff has insisted for great numbers of years that the Army must be more largely concentrated. . . . We have actually abandoned 13 posts during the last two years.* The Staff probably will report between 20 and 30 more posts that should be abandoned ... if we are to accomplish some very considerable economies. ... I have appointed a committee to study these proposed abandonments and see which of them could be used by other departments of the Government. . . . There are some of these posts that might be of very great value to the States for institutional purposes. It would relieve...
...much the committee will and can accomplish is a question. Other committees have sought the true solution and have filed, but each has contributed something, if only to reaffirm the complexity of the problem as it exists today. Some results can be expected from a group of sincere and thinking men, and some relief from the present situation can be hoped for. Their success lies largely with themselves. It they approach with a thesis, but if they begin with an unbiased desire for correction, they should contribute something of value...
...trouble to Freshman problems, not only making intelligent suggestions as to curriculum, but also discussing all sorts of outside activity. In this fashion, perhaps by monthly evening gatherings, the adviser would be in close touch with his advisees, helping them, if possible, to avoid scholastic and general difficulties. To accomplish this successfully, since most advisers are men engaged in graduate study, they should receive sufficient compensation for serving one of the greatest needs of first year students...