Word: movements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Form in physical skills is the key to success in sports. Postural habits in study or business may keep you healthy or cause you to bog down" said the director, and it is his aim to produce this form by increasing the range of movement which, in Freshmen, is very limited...
...American history broadcasts, which are being developed with the cooperation of the faculty counsellors of President Conant's program for extra-curricular study of American civilization, will include the following subjects: meaning of the westward movement; agricultural conservation; problem of immigration and foreign minorities; history of trade unionism; history of the Supreme Court; changing concepts of American destiny; economic integration of America; American idealism and religions; history of the theatre; and public health...
...however, increased vocational training takes the place of cultural education either is schools or in colleges, it is definitely undesirable. Such a movement would greatly telescope the teaching of liberal arts in our high schools. In the colleges increased practical training would replace the present theoretical approaches. Such a plan has been suggested by many educators, but its inception would have grave consequences for American democracy...
...result of this movement away from religion has been that, in a University which prides itself on presenting both sides of every important question, one view of religion has been slighted. While scientific objectivity reigns supreme in religious study, the case for Christianity as a personal faith is neglected. For this reason, the new course planned by the Divinity School should be welcomed by the College with open arms. But that this course heralds a return of religion to any part of its former importance in education is not likely. True, President Eliot's theory of specialization seems to have...
Last week when Marcel Tabuteau sat out in front of the orchestra at a Manhattan concert and soloed in Mozart's Quartet in F Major for Oboe and Strings, hard-boiled critics threw kisses at the ceiling, and at the end of the first movement the audience cheered. Marcel Tabuteau grinned uneasily, but he did not rise to acknowledge the applause. When it was all over he boosted himself out of his chair and hobbled off the stage. Marcel Tabuteau had the gout. For two weeks, on tour, he had been traveling in wheel chairs, ambulances, on crutches...