Word: cards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...history. 10,000 visitors shook the President's hand. At nearly all hours the lines of waiting visitors extended several blocks from the White House in the broiling sun. 1,000 persons were admitted at a time by the White House police, the usual formality of admission by card being disregarded...
...Wilson is in favor of the school of fine arts because " My wife, who was graduated from the college here, would not let me live in the same house with her if I opposed the fine arts school." And modern languages to " enable a student to read a menu card intelligently " will be offered, and a model packing plant may be installed. The President sums it all up thus: " Practical demonstration of the theoretical is my first aim for the college." And apparently he believes in the corollary: if you can't demonstrate it, don't teach...
...college prexy who provides modern languages " to enable a student to read a menu card intelligently...
Glenna Collett walked into the clubhouse of the Whitemarsh Valley Club, Philadelphia, after the first round of the Eastern Women's Championship with a card of 78−the first woman to break 80 for the course. Two days later she won the tournament with six strokes to spare over Alexa Sterling...
...Study", be given to all freshmen it has been objected that no definite system can be prescribed which will meet the needs of every one. But help could be given to many students by teaching them even such elementary things as the merits of a loose leaf or a card system for lecture notes, the advantage of classifying notes from the assigned "readings", making outlines of subjects, the use of diagrams and the general distribution of time. Many a college graduate who has learned in a business office how to concentrate off a given task has looked back with regret...