Word: openings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saratoga Association for the Improvement of the Breed of Horses last week figuratively rubbed its hands. Its horse-racing season had opened. The fat figure of Harry ("Hot Dog") Stevens seemed to grow fatter as he turned hungry people away from his race track club. The red face of Edward J. Tranter, potent Saratoga auctioneer, seemed to grow redder as he thought of the $5,000,000 worth of horse flesh that had arrived. Names of Whitney. Riddle, Widener, Vanderbilt, Sinclair, dutifully took their places on the "boards" as the week advanced. On shaded streets leading to the track rolled...
...Britain's use of radio in teaching. Most modern, and with greatest possibilities perhaps, was a "home talkie" made by Home Talkie Productions, Inc., giving a biology professor's lecture as if he were in a classroom. Most of the teachers attending the exhibit, which will remain open during August, were in Geneva for the Congress of the World Federation of Education Associations, begun six years ago in the U. S. by Dr. Augustus Orloff Thomas. State Superintendent of Public Schools in Maine and President of the Congress. While the aim of the Federation is to discuss...
...Chandor work, Sir Joseph Duveen has written: "What his portraits reveal is the impression of personal dignity coupled always with charm. The material likeness is there, presented by a sound craftsman; but above all, there is the caste and character discerned by the artist whose eyes are always open to the poetic and imaginative values of his subject...
...plans to secede from Princeton, to found a new seminary to teach the ideals which Princeton would presumably no longer foster. More than 70 professors, preachers and elders attended. Prominent of course were Princeton faculty conservatives. Dr. John Gresham Macheru veteran of Princeton's doctrinal wars, made the opening address, said: "The old Princeton under this new board is doomed." Prof. Robert Dick Wilson told of the call from students for a school devoted to orthodoxy. Prof. Oswald Thompson Allis, editor of the Princeton Theological Review, advocated a Philadelphia suburban site for the new seminary, conveniently near the University...
...Number Two event of the U. S. Polo year came to pass last week at Rumson, N. J., where fishhawks nest on the telephone poles and the Shrewsbury River winds placidly into the sea. The National Open tournament next month at Meadowbrook will be U. S. Polo's Number One event for 1929. Last week's play was the National Junior...