Word: americans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bernard Friedman 1G, secretary of the Harvard Graduate Student Union, announced yesterday that Poland's talk "will deal with the Dies Committee's investigation of the American Student Union in relation to its repercussions on the Harvard campus...
...genius at rendering intimate accounts of New England life in poetry has caused him to be recognized as one of our foremost American poets and won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1924, 1930, and 1937, in addition to many other awards and honorary degrees...
...studies of the economic plight of American youth appearing recently have meaning for all college students. One of them, prepared by the American Youth Commission, is nation-wide and represents conclusions of experts. The other, a scientific polling of a cross-section of New York youth by the Y.M.C.A., states the beliefs of the youths themselves. Though the two reports take different methods of approach they reach the same conclusion--there is a definite need for more vocational training today. And their conclusion is further evidence of a dangerous trend in American educational method...
...colleges, it is definitely undesirable. Such a movement would greatly telescope the teaching of liberal arts in our high schools. In the colleges increased practical training would replace the present theoretical approaches. Such a plan has been suggested by many educators, but its inception would have grave consequences for American democracy...
...something close to dynamite in motion picture form. "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", like all Capra pictures, makes you laugh, cry, and sit on the edge of your seat in suspense. But this time Capra has gone a step further: he has portrayed what James Truslow Adams calls the "American dream." Granted that the picture is emotional to the nth degree, the fact remains that democracy, Americanism--call it what you will--is more a matter of emotion than cold logic. When an American sees the statue in the Lincoln Memorial, he does not see merely the image...