Word: nationales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Helmle & Corbett have raised spires and pediments throughout the East. Most famed is the tan, delicately Gothicized tower of their Bush Terminal office building in Manhattan. In London they thrust up the robust U. S. contours of Bush House among the fragile graces of Christopher Wrenn and Inigo Jones. In...
Front pages the next day streamed with the news. The wires rushed the story around the world. Jenny Lind, Galli-Curci, Marion Talley ... the man in the street learned a new name. Overnight the 19-year-old girl became a national institution.
From India to Canada came swart, white-bearded Sir Rabindranath Tagore. From London came the British Broadcasting Co.'s Education Director J. C. Stobart. From-Czechoslovakia came interpreters of the famed-"Sokol movement" for national physical education. Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan sent representatives. So did Australia and New...
In the U. S. great but humdrum is the National Education Association. To its meetings come no representatives of foreign countries. And, except when a U. S. President addresses the N. E. A., its activities are ignored by the laity, unnoticed by most newspapers.
Last week's N. C. E. meeting was broadly devoted to "education and leisure." Said Major Fred J. Ney, N. C. E. executive secretary, prime mover of the convention: "The real purpose of this conference ... is to develop a keener appreciation-of the educational problems common to the whole...