Word: holt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Birthday. Edward Wentworth Beatty, Canadian Pacific Railway's president. Age: 52. Date: Oct. 16. Celebration: dinner given by Canadian tycoons-Sir Herbert Holt (president, Royal Bank of Canada), Sir Charles Gordon (president, Bank of Montreal), R. S. McLaughlin (president, General Motors of Canada) et al.-at swank Montreal Forest & Stream Club...
...Hamilton Holt, in the accompanying article on the experiment in higher education which is being carried out at Rollins College, presents suggestions which, though he says they "make no claim to revolutionary departure from the established order in the educational field," yet seem very extreme when compared with that order as established at Harvard...
...success of any system depends greatly on the personality of the teacher, and there is no reason to suppose that the adoption of the conference plan throughout a college would attract that particular type of pedagogue that Mr. Holt considers so essential to the success of his plan...
...weighing not only the ordinary and official recommendations as to a man's teaching ability but the opinions of his former students... In other words, he was not considered unless he had that divine gift for guiding and encouraging others which is the essence of good teaching. Hamilton Holt in The Nation...
...Jack Holt is the successful broker-racketeer of the type with whom most theatre-goers are familiar. His wife is the loving type who knows nothing of her husband's affairs with the underworld, while the "Sonny Boy" element is introduced in "Davey Lee" who makes his entree into the domestic scene singing "Rockaby Baby...