Word: edu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...College students and faculty last week indignantly organized commit tees, with slogans and verse campaigned to keep their college open, many an edu cator wondered whether Teachers College's pioneering influence over U. S. education was beginning to crack up. Progressive Edu cation Association's directors urged...
...parties Bao Dai dearly loves. To one such party lately went a pretty 18-year-old girl from French Cochin-China to the south. She was a commoner, daughter of a well-born Chinese ex-Governor and her name was Marie Nguyen Hu Hao. She, too, had been edu-cated in Europe, in a convent near Paris. She liked detective stories and jazz and was ready to try her hand at ping-pong...
...beside Lake Chautauqua in New York's southwestern tip, was once a Methodist camp-meeting ground. In 1874 a Methodist circuit preacher named John Heyl Vincent and a pious Ohio inventor named Lewis Miller held a two-week institute for Sunday School teachers there. Both men were self-edu-cated, hungry for knowledge, eager to spread it. Within 1 5 years they had added schools of languages and music, started the famed Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle for home reading. Thus arose a unique conglomeration of religion, culture and fun which the late Theodore Roosevelt once called "the most American...
...written a biography on everyone's favorite subject : himself. Emil Ludwig was born Cohn 50 years ago, son of an eye-doctor in Breslau. Germany. When he was two years old his father furthered the family's fortunes by changing its name. Emil had a good edu cation and then went to work in his uncle's prosperous coal business. He did well, but a canker ate him: like many romantic boys he dreamed of being a great poet. When he fell in love (at sight) with a girl he called Diana, she encouraged his literary ambitions...
...Farewell to Arms (TIME, Oct. 6), her beauty was more noticeable than it is when photo- graphed. Universally praised by critics, she was immediately taken to Hollywood. Body and Soul is her first U. S. movie. Daughter of the Countess Zanardi-Landi, Actress Landi was born in Venice, edu-cated in England. She is now 26, has written two published novels, likes tennis, is billed as never drinking...