Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beginning of cooperation in teaching teachers ought to break down the old barriers between the School and other departments. Some day soon the School will seek more cooperation, when it asks the School of Public Administration to help it train superintendents. Teaching should be an important concern of every one in any way connected with education, for no university can advance learning, nor disseminate knowledge, unless its system of education can act with freedom and integrity. The understanding of educational policy, which even transcends the importance of "teaching teachers to teach," is necessary to the very keeping of American civilization...
Second, the School lacks scholarships to an appalling degree. What few are offered come from the main income. Third, there exist no funds for research in education. Recently a notable research was conducted with only partial outside help: a twelve year study of the physical, scholastic, and mental growth of 3000 children. Although the School does not want to become purely a research institute, unless more funds are provided in the near future it might well have...
...music of the Strauses is usually able to cover a multitude of sins, and succeeds in doing so again in Hassard Short's musical extravaganza, "The Three Waltzes," now playing at the Boston Opera House. Beautiful scenery and a pleasing ballet also add their bit and help to compensate for a weak, melodramatic plot, which drags badly in places and has trouble in coming to a conclusion. The show has as many climaxes as a circus, and it is a pity it is so long, for some of the most beautiful dances come at the end, when many...
From a Georgia banker: "One of these days the tractor and the mechanical picker are going to catch up with cotton, but by that time it's going to be too late to help the tenant farmer. . . . What it all adds up to is that cotton has ruined ten million people living in the cotton States, and it's going to ruin a lot more before it's through. . . . Some nights I can't sleep at all for lying awake wondering what's go- ing to happen...
...country school at Harrisburg. Ark.: "Five months of school a year is all I'm in favor of, because I need my children at home to help work the farm...