Word: discussions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speed, strength and weight, co-ordinating all three to gain the best possible form. When a shot putter learns his art there should be no strain. And yet I consider the shot put to be the most difficult of all field events to master thoroughly. In the hammer and discuss it is possible to gather momentum in the movements inside the seven foot circle. In the shot put the competitor operates from a dead start and must get rid of the missile in the shortest possible time...
Nicholas Murray Butler: "I have not yet read the letter ... I do not want to discuss...
...purpose of the convention is to discuss questions vital to university newspapers with particular emphasis on matters of editorial policy, and to review the accomplishments of the college press during the scholastic year which is now drawing to an end. It is expected that outstanding editorial policies, notably those concerning overemphasis of football, abolition of compulsory chapel, and prohibition, will be crystallized so that a more unified policy may be suggested for the college editor's pen during the coming year...
...changes, the freshman week is least promising. The program for the entrants is a heavy one. Within the week, they are to meet their faculty advisor in conference and the faculty ensemble at tea; they are to discuss the question "why are you here?" and to hear old grads expound the college spirit and sing college songs. Besides, they are expected to take a psychological test during the week and to undergo a medical examination. Although the program has the advantage, now universally acclaimed, of familiarizing the student with his teachers at the very beginning of his college career...
Another speaker at the Bankers' Club gathering-met to discuss a music festival to be held this month in Madison Square Garden to raise a fifth of the five millions needed to build the Yeshivah- was Adolph Lewisohn, one of the most intelligent and effective workers on human relationships in the U. S. He referred to the Yeshivah as "the salvation of Judaism," where Jews could acquire a college education in Jewish surroundings and without breaking the Sabbath and other holy days. He said that his own grandsons had been excluded "by one of the East's largest...