Word: givers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excellently acted as hostess at No. 10 Downing Street for her father during his tenure of the Premiership, commenced, last week, to function as an editress. The periodical for which she is responsible is a weekly, The Optimist, called in a subtitle The National Organ of the Cheerful Giver. It is being run in the interest of the Margaret MacDonald* and Mary Middleton Baby Clinic. The price is one penny (Id) which is written in this case Id(onation)-one donation. In the first issue, Miss Ishbel wrote a leading article about the baby clinic. Other contributors were...
...questions which students of hers, in a sociologico-literary course, asked before the course opened. As a teacher of some experience, Miss Scudder doubtless realized that many such questions are put with feigned seriousness and interest by students either in desperation or in an effort to impress their mark-giver. Still, Miss Scudder felt that there was something significant in the fact that "heads black, brown, yellow, straight and curly, bobbed and fluffed" could think up queries such...
...ingenuity and his power. If he is interested only in absorbing knowledge, or in the higher subtleties of his subject, without the more human qualities to which I have referred, he might well question his fitness for teaching, however well qualified for research. The teacher is essentially a giver. Any who profoundly but not sentimentally have that attitude will often succeed where even the more intellectually gifted may fall. Naturally diffidence, undue self-consciousness, hesitance or monotony of speech, and other comparable characteristic are, if persistent checks on full mastery in teaching; not so much, so, however, as such things...
...Fellows gratefully accept the gift; that they execute in such form as the President may approve an agreement to construct and equip an administration building, a library building, and such other buildings described in the official statement, a copy of which has been handed by Bishop Lawrence to the giver, as in the judgment of the Corporation are required for the present needs of the School and its needs in the immediate future; and that all such buildings be identified as the George F. Baker Foundation. "Very truly yours, "(Signed) A. LAWRENCE LOWELL...
...peace prize to be awarded for a 5,000-(or less) word plan. But the plan must be nonpolitical. It must be a plan to promote peace by education. [This was the great theme ot an educational convention in San Francisco last year.] The prize is $25,000. Its giver is Raphael Herman†, of Detroit. Members of the jury of award include: Banker Robinson of Los Angeles, President Jones of the N. E. A., Governor Baxter of Maine, President MacCracken of Vassar, Scientist Milliken of California...