Word: high
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Mawr, as well as serving as professor in the American School at Athens. With the late Richard Norton '92 he was engaged in the American excavations at Cyrene in North Africa. Professor Hoppin's "Handbook of Attic Red-Figured Vases," recently published by the Harvard University Press, has attained high rank among the authoritative works on Greek archaeology...
Material is needed for all field events--the shot-put, hammer-throw, pole-vault, the shot-put, hammer-throw, pole-valut, broad and high jumps. Lack of experience will prove no handicap. Candidates for the shot-put and hammer-throw are particularly desired...
...Because of the high cost of living, there is a disastrous lack of teachers for the schools of the country. Six hundred thousand teachers are needed in the United States to teach the 20,000,000 pupils in our schools, and 100,000 new positions are open every year; yet the teacher-training institutions of the country do not turn out more than 25,000 graduates to fill them...
...Half of our teachers have no training whatever for their work, and half of them have no education beyond the high school. Half of them again do not stay more than five years in the work, and half of them are not over 25 years of age. Yet without question the teacher is the most important factor in education. Nothing else can count so much. No money the country can spend and no perfection of school organization or administration can compensate for the lack of trained teachers...
...thinking now is that Harvard should touch down the ball about three times while Yale don't touch down the ball at all. Not that I ain't got some good friends at Yale too. I know a lot of high toned people because only yesterday I took a picture of Ethel Baltimore who is a very classy actress and is now playing on Broadway in a new show which it is called "Delicatessen." You should see her in the sad parts where she cries so that you would think that the show was losing money instead of going...