Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...schools where great masters of architecture, sculpture, and painting instructed their apprentices as they worked for the masters from dawn till dusk. The great monuments and works of art of past time were brought forth in such an atmosphere where master and pupil mangled in intimate personal connection of creation and criticism. For sculpture, painting, and the minor arts, the nineteenth century saw the disappearance of the old workshop but fortunately for architecture the tradition comes down to us in unbroken line from Egypt and Greece--not only in stylistic influences and legends, but in manipulation of process and technique...
...Creation of a National (coal) Wage (revision) Board, representing miners and owners equally and having a neutral chairman with a casting vote; 3) Revision of wages to proceed on the explicit understanding that the Royal Coal Commission's recommendations for increasing the efficiency of the coal industry are to be given effect; 4) Legislative measures for reconstructing the coal industry to be prepared by a Government-named committee partly representative of the miners...
...Baptist Convention at Houston, Tex.), called beer and light wines the "inveterate enemies of the human race"; proclaimed unswerving loyalty to the 18th Amendment and hostility to any changes in the Volstead Act; resolved to reject "every theory, evolution or otherwise," which teaches that man is not the "especial creation...
Last week the Disabled American Veterans of the World War announced through National Commander John W. Mahan the creation of a $750,000 fund-to be called the Schumann-Heink Foundation-named for the chunky, grey-haired woman who has mothered them, who will also mother the fund, gather in the first dollars by a benefit concert tour, which will open in Los Angeles May 29, take her to 15 cities, ending June 30 in Boston...
...Chairman of the Student Council Committee on Education, discussed the report recently drawn up by his committee. W. L. Tibbetts '26, described the changes made in the student employment office during the past year. Cheek himself spoke enthusiastically of the change brought about in Harvard athletics by the creation of the position of a Director of Athletics, now held by W. J. Bingham '16. J. D. Hitch '27, President of the Glee Club explained the reasons for the Club's withdrawal from the intercollegiate contest...