Word: fosterers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warship lay anchored in the river. Airplanes streamed about. Soldiers, sailors, marines and police paraded on to the bridge. Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his predecessor, Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York motored to the bridge centre, where they encountered Governor Morgan Foster Larson of New Jersey. Mayor James John Walker of New York City stayed away. He went, instead, to the Colgate-New York University football game...
...foster-brother Cyrena Van Gordon sang Wagner's siren song in a nurse's uniform, to a bare piano accompaniment, but in Philadelphia last week she sang it in its rightful pagan setting. Languorously, with blandishment in every tone, she tried to stay the truant Tannhäuser whose torn soul was marvelously depicted by the stately chords of holy Pilgrim music and the madly skirling strings of a Bacchanal. Tenor Gotthelf Pistor had the nasal, strutting manner of most German tenors, but his Tannhäuser showed a certain dark-toned dignity. Conductor Fritz Reiner made...
...Balzerini '32 defeated J. T. Foster in the finals of the John Winthrop House tennis tournament which ended recently. At the Winthrop House Dinner on Thursday evening, the winner was presented with a silver...
...plan aiming to foster criticism of basic assumptions has been outlined and heartily approved by the tutors of one of the Houses. It has been proposed that candidates for Honors in each of several fields read papers, prepared with the help of their tutors, before the tutors and interested members of the House. Efforts would be made in choosing and handling a subject to consider some of the basic principles involved in the field. In discussion of the paper, guided by tutors, it would be attempted to justify study in the field concerned by analyzing its relations to other subjects...
There has never been so propitious a moment for starting such a movement. The Freshmen are together in the Union, and the Houses provide common eating places for upper-classmen. Although until now the plan to foster French and German conversation has been only for Freshmen, there is no reason why it can not be instituted in some of the Houses, perhaps in smaller groups, but therefore to greater advantage...