Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...restated for the chaplains the arguments they knew well as to why Christians could be obligated to go to war. Chaplain William A. Sessions of Fort Lind, N. D. was billed to show how he led CCC boys in singing with his expensive accordion, but someone stole the instrument when he laid it down for a moment. For the third year the chaplains elected as their president Dr. Arlington Aice McCallum, reserve chaplain, energetic rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Washington, who presides at conventions with a stopwatch to make sure no one talks too long...
Holding himself still in the ranks of the student, Gropius says that he is here "to study the extraordinary building organization, which is at present unsurpassed in the world," and "which has provided an instrument of such wonderful perfection that I think any architect would feel inspired and eager to take part in the task of developing the American architecture of the future...
...dazzling array of amateurism, the Pierian Sodality is going to be hosts to anyone from Harvard or Radcliffe who thinks he can play a musical instrument tonight in Sanders Theatre...
...more advanced ones, each professor teaching some one of the primary courses each year in addition to his specialty. For the faculty, this is highly desirable, as it forces each professor to keep the elements of his science at his finger tips. For students interested in mathematics as an instrument and not as an end, the digressions of such specialists as Professor Stone, seem superfluous and distracting. What these men desire primarily is to be presented with the origins and uses of the mathematical forms they will want to put into practical uses...
...members of the faculty, student body or alumni, as well as Radcliffe students, who play a musical instrument are invited to attend and join in "swinging" simultaneously, reading their music from sight...