Word: group
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Before leaving the island, the teachers will divide themselves into groups as much as possible, each group being made up of friends and headed by an encargada or chaperon. This system is expected to add greatly to the health and comfort of the teachers and will simplify the arrangements for caring for them. During the summer the same salaries will be paid to the teachers as if they had remained in Cuba; and at the same time it is probable that the individual expenses will be very small. An emergency fund will be formed by contribution of each member...
Most reform movements are started by groups of a few men. There is a great danger in this fact, though it is one not easy to perceive. When the standard, the ideal, is set by a group, it is certain to be lower than when upheld by an individual, and the public, seeing a spirit of compromise in the new organization, at once loses all faith in it. Here we have the secret of the failure of many such enterprises, and it is hard to blame any one for it. Indeed, the claim is made that a practical politician, though...
...gave rise to the Parnassian School. Their work was made more difficult by the growing strength of the prose realism with its Stendhals, Balzacs, Daudets and Zolas. Nothing was more natural than that they should be conservative and pay much attention to verse form. The leading members of this group are Coppee, Anatole France, Sully, Prudhomme, Heredia, Sylvestre and Leon Dierk...
...very important that all the questions be answered, in order to make the statistics of the class complete. The lives are private, and are used only by the secretary in making up his report. The individual lives are not published in any way other than as a group of statistics. ELIOT SPALDING, Secretary...
...very important that all the questions be answered, in order to make the statistics of the class complete. The lives are private, and are used only by the secretary in making up his report. The individual lives are not published in any way other than as a group of statistics. ELIOT SPALDING, Secretary...