Word: foundings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because it would be in direct contrast to the main purpose of the secondary school. There has been much regret evidenced recently by educators at the disappearance of the liberal college under the increasing pressure for specialization. In laying a firm foundation for later years of university training is found the most imminent and pressing problem with which the preparatory school is faced. The most practical objection to the Choate plan is the doubtful efficacy of specialization in the secondary curriculum...
...person Graham McNamee is lean, light-haired, with prominent nose and upper teeth. Born in Washington, D. C. in 1889, he grew up to be a semiprofessional baseballer in St. Paul, Minn. Then he found his baritone voice was better than his throwing arm. He was a church soloist in Bronxville, N. Y. where he romantically won his wife with the aid of an elopers' ladder. Called one day for jury duty in Manhattan, he found himself near No. 195 Broadway, then headquarters of WEAF. He walked in, took a voice test, got a job. Fame came quickly...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company found itself last week in the predicament of planning to move and having no place to go. Since last winter it has been understood that a new Metropolitan opera house would be the centre of a midtown development projected by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (TIME, Dec. 31). But last week a joint statement issued by Realtor Rockefeller and the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company declared that the plan had been abandoned "with good will on both sides." The proposed Rockefeller site is tied up with leases until November 1931. The public was asked...
...pragmatic women's colleges, last week Acting President* Hans Froelicher announced that as long as smoking did not "interfere with routine class work," or create fire hazards such as in dormitories, henceforth Goucher girls might smoke when, where, and as much as they pleased. Said he: "It was found that enforcement of the rule forbidding the young woman to smoke in public places required snooping and tattling, incompatible with the dignity of the college...
Three days after the disappearance, a rabbit hunter found Nelson 25 miles east of Cleveland near Chagrin Falls, where the Alleghenies give their last, low roll towards the Great Plains. He had jumped just before crashing. The jump apparently stunned him. The half-open folds of his parachute quilted him too thinly. Unconscious, he froze to death, hard by the busy Cleveland to Pittsburgh motor road, the tenth mail flyer to die on the New York-Cleveland route...