Word: normale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...winds, or wake with vision of the street of dreams" said the prologue to the picture. And so they were. There characters seemed at first glance to be real people, acting in a real Manuel in real situations: yet they were not real people, but characterizations, showing not their normal reaction to various occurrences, but rather the thoughts and ideas in their hearts. Indeed, tow of the characters, the preacher of the streets, and the wandering musician were purely allegorical; the one representing, with his prayers and hymns, the Good Influence; the other, with his violin music, suggestive...
...coast colleges have the advantage of rapid communication with the world and enjoy other facilities of western civilization, but they suffer from unfavorable influences which characterize life along the coast in the Levant. The interior colleges are almost free from these influences, are in contact with normal native life, and have an unequalled opportunity for bringing influence to bear upon it directly...
Definitely, the ideal of the college is not to make Americans or semi-Americans, but to train native leaders for the country of their birth. Therefore, instead of attempting to segregate students and impress them with foreign ideals, they are left in contact with their normal environment so that there may be a continual interplay and progressive and natural adjustment between new truth and the old life. The college is content to introduce germinal ideas, expecting them to become dynamic in natural, indigenous ways. It would be of little benefit to Turkey to turn out emigrants to America, men whose...
What can be done, that is not being done, to hasten the advent of the day when to fly will be a normal individual undertaking? Only careful propaganda designed to reach the general public who still regard the airman as a superman and the airplane as the invention of the devil, can hasten the day, and such propaganda is best produced by the formation of aero clubs and aero societies with attendant activities, until the passage of a machine overhead is so usual as not to cause even the field laborer to look up from his toil. "Per ardua adastra...
...performance will be at Utica, N. Y., where "A Punch for Judy" will be given in the New Century Auditorium Wednesday at 8.15. Evening productions of all four plays will follow on Thursday and Friday, April 21 and 22 at 8 o'clock in the Auditorium of the State Normal School at Buffalo, N. Y.; while the next day, April 23, will see the conclusion of the Workshop tour at the Duchess Theatre, Cleveland, O. Here the entire program will be given in two performances, one at 2.15, the other...