Word: content
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...content of the "radical" resolution adopted by the Council was not divulged, but it was stated that if the Administrative Board at its meeting this afternoon reports favorably on the resolution it will immediately be made public...
...Code damn the paper to his heart's content. Personal attacks on the staff are however unbecoming. Talbot Wegg...
...discussing the proper content of Latin courses in schools the report recommends that greater stress be laid on developing the power to read Latin and thus to obtain a cultural and literary background. To this end it is recommended that the formal study of the elements of language be somewhat reduced in the early years and that a wide selection of reading matter designed to furnish this historical-cultural objective be emphasized. Mythology, Roman traditions, home life and biography, and legends and stories appealing to the imagination of youth are subject matter recommended...
Vida D. Scudder, Professor of English at Wellesley College these 14 years, briefly suggested the content of "The College Girl's Mind," by publishing some of the questions which students of hers, in a sociologico-literary course, asked before the course opened. As a teacher of some experience, Miss Scudder doubtless realized that many such questions are put with feigned seriousness and interest by students either in desperation or in an effort to impress their mark-giver. Still, Miss Scudder felt that there was something significant in the fact that "heads black, brown, yellow, straight and curly, bobbed...
...Warden of Sing Sing Prison (1915-16) : "Judge Caverly met the issue presented to him like a man of the modern world. He may not have known much about the new phychology -few of us do-but he was not, like the State's Attorney, content to repose in the wisdom of the 19th Century. He at least was willing to learn, so he admitted the evidence. He seemed unconscious of the fact of which he cannot have been wholly unconscious, that in so doing he was opening the steel-barred doors of the criminal courts of this country...