Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they set bravely to work for the cause of genteel education. To elicit contributions they prepared an inventory of Spence's educational assets in terms of the teachers who helped make Spence famous. Miss Grace A. McElroy, who used to be Miss Spence's secretary and later (with Miss Miller) an associate principal, was resigning and had been elected Associate Principal Emeritus by the Board of Trustees who wish to consult her on educational policy. Three of the old regime teachers will not go with the school to its new quarters: Miss Laura V. Tanner, of the English...
...hospital and the printing press. "At the Sign of the Griffin" he published various Latin documents two of which were "spurious, very spurious, absolutely spurious." Scholar that he was, his critical sense was temporarily submerged by an enthusiasm caught from the great humanists of his period. Some time later he abandoned both science and the humanities to play the monk at the Abbey of Saint-Maur-des-Fosses, a Paradise, he said, of healthfulness, amenity, serenity, delight and all honest pleasures of agriculture and rustic life. . . . But Rabelais could not remain in a Paradise, any more than Eve; like...
...York City, however, allows such Jewish parochial schools, and also state Jewish high schools, called intermediate Yeshivas. The new Yeshiva College is the last step. It has full college rating in New York state, is a complete college in liberal arts. Later, it will have medicine, law. Already it has its theological seminary of which Rabbi Margolies is, of course, president...
Unheeded in the roar, buried in the shuffle, music critics bent uneasily over their typewriters. Lost in back pages were the reviews, flashing such signals as "immature talent" . . . "further training" . . . "promise." Three years later nothing had happened to alter those words...
...obvious remedy for this privation as seen by the individual, is to cut down his science courses to a minimum and concentrate in some field which holds less interest for him. Not only does this involve personal hardship, but it loses for the science departments many men who might later be a credit and a source of strength to them. Only from motives of self interest then and even without any consideration for the rights or convenience of individuals, the authorities in charge would seem to be justified in a relaxation of the restrictions now imposed on laboratory working time...