Word: elementalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West criticize, and in any case is very imprudent and uncalled for. The Tribune's editorial was a bit extreme, but did not call for an outburst of criticism, directed against the Mid-West, more violent than weighty. It seems to me that you should not insult that element of the student body which gives Harvard its national fame. If Harvard were merely a local Massachusetts institution, there would be no one to carry its policies and traditions to the rest of the country...
...official name, was evolved by capable, burly Ruth Faison Shaw at her experimental school for British & U. S. children in Rome. Her primary interest was more therapeutic than artistic. She wanted to give her pupils the simplest and most direct method of self-expression to avoid the element of fear induced by tools that the child feels incapable of mastering. Spreading paint with the bare hands was an obvious idea but ordinary paints have obvious disadvantages. Fingerpaints, Miss Shaw's own invention, are made with harmless earth, pigments and a cold-creamy substance, all of which washes instantly...
Such people may be tempted to buy a new car when they see the 1933 automobile shows, led off as usual by the New York Automobile Show last week. On exhibit were 300 models representing 29 makes of cars. Some of the usual element of surprise was missing because many manufacturers, sales-hungry " (and perhaps wiser than before) had already revealed their 1933 wares. But even jaded engineers and salesmen found much to get excited about. And never before in its 33 years has the Show been such a show in the showman's sense...
Questioned specifically about the nature of the Tutorial System, Palmer expressed the opinion that it did defeat to some extent, one desirable element in undergraduate life, since it tends to make courses larger, leaving individual work to the tutors. "No longer," he said, "is there as much actual contact between the lecturer and the student as there used to be. This is not true in every case by any means, but its being true at all is lamentable, since in no way can a college give more to its students than by this communion between men who have, in some...
...right. And then, though the Doctor works like a bull to get the epidemic under control, his enemies go to work to put the blame on him. As Board of Health terrier he should have smelled out the rat that polluted the town's water supply. The "better element." cumulatively exasperated by Doc Bull's plain speaking and low living, rally to get his scalp. With conscious irony Author Cozzens lets the town villain, smart Henry Harris, save Dr. Bull's hair by turning the laugh on his enemies, persuading the town that the Doctor...