Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American school system" is no new thing for pedagogs to discuss. Last week, as 6,000-odd members of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association gathered in Minneapolis for their 63rd annual convention, they stirred themselves once more to "avert this disaster." They were more anxious than ever before. It no longer seemed sufficient simply to cry: "Save the schools! Save the innocent children!" An emergency commission reported, first thing, that while public school enrolment had increased nearly a million since 1930, the number of teachers had decreased 15,000; the amount to cover per diem cost...
...rules rather rigidly enforced by the House Masters is that prohibiting students from transferring from one House to another after the first year of residence. The reason for this rule is clear. The Masters are anxious to preserve the unity and identity of their various Houses, to prevent them from degenerating into more dormitories. This anxiety is commendable enough and the Masters are quite justified in discouraging wholesale migrations from one unit to another...
...history of French literature of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The aims of the course are far too extensive; consequently the material is presented in a haphazard fashion by men who being aware of the weaknesses and elementary character of the course, are not much more anxious to teach than their students to learn. Nor does French 2 prepare a student to do any of the specific reading which may be required of him later in history, government, or scientific courses...
...munching nuts in silence. Only two Californians, Glenn Wessels and Sidney Joseph, have actually seen the completed statue. It is a standing St. Francis, with head bowed and face in the deep shadow of a cowl. Friends of the sculptor busily circulate the rumor that the Italian Government is anxious to buy it, to erect in Assisi...
Involved, perhaps fatally embroiled last week were Colombia and Peru, the protagonists proper, with the United States of Brazil an anxious bystander. Because Mother Amazon is so very long (3,900 mi.) solemn treaties long since made her an "international waterway." Under these treaties Colombian war boats have been slowly steaming up the Amazon and across Brazil with as much freedom as though they were on the open sea. Knowing that trouble might result, Brazilians have had to send troopships of their own up the Amazon to preserve "armed neutrality." Finally from Iquitos, high up Mother Amazon in Peru, gunboats...