Word: careers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uncle, the late great Elzear Alexandré Taschereau, dour-faced Archbishop of Quebec, first Canadian Cardinal, a founder of Laval University and for over 50 years an immense power in the life of the province. Premier Louis, cardinal's nephew, was destined from the first for a public career. Premier since 1920, he it was who framed the widely discussed, widely imitated (by other Canadian provinces) Quebec liquor law. Though he thinks and speaks habitually in French, his English is forceful and fluent. After the first conference between paperman and premiers, President Graustein spoke to reporters...
...curriculum was set up with two courses, a stiff educational one to prepare "career girls" for the Bryn Mawr examinations, a less strenuous one in letters and the arts for misses planning to take their places in Society. But each & every girl must pass an examination to get into the school. And each & every one is taught that character, competence, self-reliance come before Career or Society...
...relative to see it. Why "Success" has never been produced in America is not quite clear. It is no more British than "Mr. Pym", no more ironic than "The Truth About Blayds", no more fanciful than "The Romantic Age", all well beloved pieces. It is the story of a career man in the cabinet, just about to be Chancellor of the Exchequer, who meets again a friend of his boyhood and awakens sleeping memories that remind him of all he has missed in marrying and raising a family whose motto is Success. On a political visit he sleeps once more...
Wallace Russell Harper, of Ottumwa, Iowa, was elected First Marshal of the Class of 1930 by an overwhelming majority. He prepared for Harvard at the Ottumwa High School, and during his college career has been stellar fullback on the football team, a member of the basketball squad, and president of his class when a Sophomore...
...actual teaching problems as presented by classroom experience? The art of successful teaching requires the knack of dealing with the human element just as much as it necessitates mental capability. In teaching, as in everything else, experience brings ultimate perfection, and often the early years of a teacher's career may be mainly spent in setting accustomed to handling classes...