Word: fosterers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plaza Hotel's luxurious swimming pool in Miami, where Weissmuller was swimming instructor. Nevertheless he acquits himself creditably. His spare frame is not too skinny for the role; he swims faster than Miss O'Sullivan can run and his thick-featured face is what one would expect in a foster brother of wild beasts. He wrestles bravely with animals, stuffed or otherwise, and rides a hippopotamus as though it were a Shetland pony. Best of all is his first appearance?swooping through the trees in huge quick parabolas on a succession of trapezes made of ropy vines and branches...
...speakers' table and there, singing word for word and measure for measure to the impressive cadence set by Mr. Heyniger, was Abbott Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard University. Don't tell us stories about a psychiatrist!" -From the Princeton Alumni Weekly of March 25, 1932. E. D. Foster, 1G.B. Lt. Commander (S.C.) U.S.N...
...dazed people whose pockets have been picked. . . . The utterly unrestrained duping of investors, the smug complacency of the great financial prestidigitators are all shown. . . . The sale of foreign securities was not only unrestrained by our Government but the peculiar system adopted by the State Department enabled international bankers to foster sales and convey the impression that their securities were satisfactory to our Government...
...conformity to Harvard individualism, English 28 has not only the general--and unusually irremediable--faults inherent in all survey courses, but a few peculiar to it alone. Once a pure review of the History of English literature, the course now also attempts to foster literary appreciation and to develop a critical sense. This broadened scope, theoretically admirable, has led to a confusion which defeats the purpose of the course. The lectures have little continuity nor is there any correlation between them and section work. The material treated in the various sections, moreover, differs so widely that the course is good...
...fruit of the abandoned Experimental College at Wisconsin. In the light of this experience Dr. Meiklejohn now projects a new scheme of education. The new system will have a number of small colleges, entirely separate units, each with its own autonomous faculty. This device is intended to foster an esprit de corps among the students by making them "one in purpose and understanding in the midst of all their differences." The faculty, Dr. Meiklejohn claims, will be improved by being smaller and more coherent, and in closer contact with the students. His experience has led him to believe that this...