Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vidya mandirs will be "work schools" instead of "book schools." The Mahatma proposes to teach India's children how to use their minds by teaching them how to use their hands. Chief subjects in the curriculum will be spinning, weaving, agriculture, sugar-making; chief instrument of education, the takli, a small spindle on which the student can spin yarn as he walks, talks, prays. As they learn these trades, India's school children will also learn history, geography, the three Rs. English will be taboo, for British de-Indianizing of the Indians, says Gandhi, is the nation...
...Crimson editors extend a most hearty welcome. Although it is always sad to see a class graduate, it is perennially pleasant to receive the new one, for by replacing the other it preserves the four-rung ladder of Harvard undergraduate education. As the newest part in this old instrument, which swings with each year's fresh win yet is braced by the soundness gained from the past, you Freshmen are obliged to reflect on what you will do to make the rung sturdy and lasting. Because not only is the future of Harvard dependent on your use of the step...
...airplane is an instrument as vital and epoch-making as the telescope, the microscope and the camera. An hour in the air is worth a year on the surface in . . . understanding the works and ways...
...observation was made last week by Northwestern University's Sociology Professor William Louis Bailey as he stepped from a plane in Chicago after taking his classes up for a 40-minute bird's-eye view of the city. Professor Bailey has been using the airplane as an instrument to educate his students for 18 years. Subject of their study: the growth of the city. Last week, Professor Bailey was prepared to discuss some striking theories he has developed about how a city grows...
...sophisticated man. His Self Portrait (see cut) is a prim parable: "The artist remains in shadow . . . and the cord is there to pull down the shade at any time. . . . If one chooses to go farther one may infer that he does not speak directly but through an instrument. . . . This happens to sum up the relationship of the classic artist to his subject...