Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...everyone interested in the problems of education. They are, "At the boundary between school and college the risk of over-emphasizing the particular type of ability which leads to high grades in all subjects is ever present," and "The immediate task before us is the intensification of our effort, rather than an extension of our enrollment...
...starred venture in progressive education was University of Wisconsin's Experimental College, which flared and flickered between 1927 and 1932 under famed Educator Alexander Meiklejohn. A more modest effort in the same line was the importation a year ago of John Steuart Curry to be resident artist at the University. Nominally under the jurisdiction of the College of Agriculture, Artist Curry was given a five-year contract at $4,000 a year, a studio and the right to the title "Professor Curry," which he promptly painted on his garbage...
...Every Day's A Holiday Paramount made a determined effort to de-umph Mae West by vacuum-cleaning the script, disguising Mae in a fantastic black French periwig. But, like trying to purify the water by whitewashing the village pump, it did not work. To situations considerably less potential than the story of Adam & Eve, Actress West imparts a meaning all her own; despite all directorial and script-writing efforts to make her steer a straight course, she still writhes as she pleases. As sexless a game as selling a sucker the Brooklyn Bridge resembles, in the West vernacular...
Another interesting development in connection with the work of the School of Design is the establishment of the undergraduate "Studio of Design" under the direction of the Division of Fine Arts. Here the instruction is not professional or technical in character but is concerned rather with an effort to supplement the teaching of the theory of design by practical applications. The students develop designs in three dimensions from various materials in order that they may become acquainted with the actual processes by which formal values are given to materials and to constructions...
...effort to develop one single topic in a series of lectures instead of presenting isolated weekly addresses, the Guardian announced last night that it will present three radio broadcasts during the month of February on the subject, "The American Party Battle...