Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ordinarily considered of practical value to begin the study of geography in the lowest grades of grammar schools. It is further considered practicable to end this study when pupils arrive at what are called years of discretion. The purpose of such an arrangement is doubtlessly in order to impress youthful minds with the spirit of discovery and adventure. Another aspect, however, is apparent; it is found that by the mere association of ideas children can easily connect Brazil with nuts. Ceylon with tea, or even Java with coffee. By this method, they learn to the exclusion of more important facts...
...early age his meditations led him to the conclusion that a life of renunciation and high thought was preferable to the delights of home and love. He regarded the charm of wealth and power as nothing but illusions, and left his father's palace in order to become a wandering ascetic. After many years of reclusion and concentrated thinking he began teaching his system of salvation which would deliver all living beings from sin and suffering. He taught that men should save themselves by meditation and by the practice of a high code of morality, and that they should...
...steady growth of undergraduate interest in Fine Arts is again shown in the organization of the "Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, Incorporated," an undergraduate society formed in order to show and sell contemporary works of art in every field...
...seeing any large number of original works. That time has passed with two of the best permanent collections in the country situated in Boston, and with the growth of the Fogg Art Museum, but in the field of contemporary work the student must travel to New York in order to see any number of works large enough to be representative of current artistic endeavor. Monthly exhibitions which will attempt at least to touch on every field of contemporary work should in a large part fill this need...
...Album Committee of five members was chosen in the order given as follows: Robert Reinhart, of. New York; John Williamson McPherson, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Richard Goodman John de Laittre, of Minneapolis, Minesota; Arthur Harold Harlow, Jr., of New York City...