Word: logs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...task of educating to that of preparing. Whether the private schools can educate and at the same time prepare for college, and whether colleges really educate, are questions on which one man's opinions are just as good as another's. Mark Hopkins, sitting on one end of a log with his class of one at the other end, would have said that he was doing the only real educating--but Mark has been dead some years...
Races. Up to midnight before the opening day, late arrivals by air hurried to the judges' quarters with their flight logs. There was a prize for the "On to Dayton" race (held to encourage civilian fliers), any one coming 200 miles or more being eligible. The log of Charles S. ("Casey") Jones, of Garden City, L. I., was judged to record the most efficient trip among 69 entered; he received $1,000 cash...
...rapids, the woman had no standard equipment at all (her bathing suit had been torn off by the torrent's claws) and the man had only a coat, trousers, undershirt and a hunting knife. Before the rescue, a good many weeks later, they were living in a log bungalow with a full line of cooking utensils, clothes and toilet articles. Manufacture of these things did not interest the producers (quite properly). They were forced for reasons of dramatic necessity to stress the wickedness of the young lady (Norma Shearer) before she reached the purifying atmosphere of loneliness. Indeed...
...official log of Plane No. 2, recently made public for the first time, records the progress of the flight since the take-off on Mar. 9, and gives the complete itinerary projected for the last lap. The most hazardous point in the entire schedule is the stop in Greenland. Naval officers expressed apprehension as to the ability of the airmen to land on the ice with pontoons. Ice conditions are to be feared, as it will be impossible for the Navy to afford protection for the last 150 miles of the trip...
...Songs and Ballads of the Maine Lumberjacks", collected and edited by Roland Palmer Gray of Elmira College, will be published within a week or so by the University Press. Round the camp fires and in the log cabins deep in the Maine Woods, the lumberjacks have for many decades composed and sung a rude poetry celebrating their hazardous life with its trials and its compensations. For the student of poetic orgins and of American life as well as the general reader, these poems are even more interesting than the famous old ballads handed down from our English ancestors. The typography...