Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Samuel Fleisher's idea is that every district in the U. S. should hold careful tryouts in such arts as piano playing, trombone tooting, painting, drawing, weaving, embroidery, short story writing, ballet dancing. Winners would compete against winners for national prizes. These, Sponsors Fleisher, Johnson & Gates decided, will not be medals or trophies but scholarships in recognized institutions. Businesslike President Gates announced that Dean John Harrison Minnick of his School of Education is at work on "details" and already hunting for a capable director. Tryouts for the first contest, in the Philadelphia area, are scheduled for spring...
Because Hell Week seems a better idea to youngsters than to oldsters, the doings of zealous local chapters never escape tut-tutting at sessions of the National Interfraternity Conference, which represents the elders of 62 U. S. Greek Letter societies. Meeting last week in Manhattan, the Conference administered to Hell Week its severest slap to date by resolving "to give cordial support to measures to abolish Hell Week taken by any college or university...
They preferred to remain joined because their affliction was their livelihood. Most Siamese twins have the same idea. When Surgeon Hippolyte Marcus Wertheim of York Hospital cut (without anesthesia) dead Lucio away from live Simplicio, he was performing the first operation of its kind on adult Siamese twins...
Other advantages might be expected to be forthcoming if the League should prove successful in its early ventures. Proponents of the League idea are not at all convinced that these long-run hopes would necessarily be realized. At the same time, however, they all attest to the fact that there is an immediate need of some method whereby unanimity of action may be experimented with, in the hope that a beginning can be made toward the salvation of athletic idealism from the serious threats which menace it today. Measures pertaining to standard rules of eligibility, registration of athletes and investigation...
...idea that a Boston audience, or for that matter any audience, sits on its hands, is pure bunk. Once the people pay the price of admission, you've won them over. . . That's reasonable, isn't it? They paid to have a laugh, now all you have to do is give them...