Word: dreams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their methods and devices, their endowments and equipment and paraphernalia, their hopes of prosperity and success, of riches and power, their hordes of so-called students indifferent and incompetent--if they will but forget all these and center, their thought on that youth of the starry eyes and the dream in his heart: if they will but see him as the child of this puzzling, fascinating, maddening world of yesterday and today, inheritor of its riches, its traditions, its burdens, its sins: will see him as a maker of the world of tomorrow which must be different because he wills...
...program, which follows, is made up of Hebrew Folk Songs or music by famous Jewish composers. Overture, "Le Baruffe Chiozotte." Sinigaglia In the Garden, from "Rustic Wedding" Goldmark Reve Angelique Rubenstein Fantasia from "The Tales of Hoffman" Offenbach Suite from "Shulamith" Goldfaden Scherzo from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssohn Fantasy on two Hebrew Folk Tunes Levinson Eili, Eili Arranged by Jacchia From Cradel to Chuppe Gideon-Jacchia Waltz, "The Skaters" Waldtenfel Coronation March from "The Prophet" Meyerbeer
...percent. Switzerland, Great Britain, United States, and France follow in order, the last named housing a population fourteen percent illiterate. All of these are countries in which democratic government has attained high development through many and troublous experiments. In Italy, where representative government has been at best a bad dream and at worst a nightmare, the percentage of illiterates reaches thirty-one, in Spain fifty-eight, and in Russia sixty-nine. Evidently success in democracy usually accompanies a high percentage of literacy...
...WISDOM TOOTH ? A touching fantasy about a young man who never was much good until he recaptured his childhood in a dream...
...general suspicion that more than a few teachers in great colleges, as well as in less advanced departments of education, have turned to this profession not through a fierce and productive desire to plant knowledge where it will flourish but to find a quiet academic breakwater where they can dream comfortably...