Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conductor, Dr. Serge Koussevitzky, came with the founding of the school just before the war; and this season found more than even last year's record enrollment crowding school facilities for the first-of-July opening. With a solid week of student concerts already under its belt, the huge outdoor shed echoing to the myriad noises of tuning musicians, and the full-scale Berkshire Festival due to get underway, the Orchestra management announced last week final plans for the season...
Harvard track took another long step forward last weekend when 10 Varsity specialists vaulted; throw, and hurdled their way to a third-place tie in he 71st annual outdoor IC4A championships on sun-backed Franklin Field, Philadelphia NYU, with 36 points, was the winner, Michigan State scored 25 points for second place, and the Crimson and Penn State each had 24 Forty-four other colleges also...
...twelve years, gave it up for the wider audience of politics. As an articulate member of Kiwanis, Masons, Shriners, Elks, Odd Fellows, and the House of Representatives (since 1939), he has never been frightened by a rostrum. He is president of the National Forensic League. He has written for Outdoor America, the Country Gentleman, Conservation, Education and Successful Farming. He writes a monthly column about Washington for the Republican magazine. The war convinced him that "we must universalize education for peace...
...week will be Wednesday, with a baseball game, luncheon, concert, buffet supper, dance and more tradition on tap. The morning will be taken up by the formal Class Day exercises in the House triangle, including the Class Oration, Poem, Ode and Ivy Oration followed by an outdoor luncheon. Cap and gown clad Seniors will be admitted to the Class Day rites free of charge, and the regular admission fee will be fifty cents. Luncheon will cost $1.50 per plate...
...room schoolhouse, like the outdoor privy, is vanishing,* but half the youngsters in the U.S. (13 million of them) still go to rural schools.. What kind of education are they getting? After a two-year look-around, a nine-man commission (headed by the National Education Association's Howard Dawson, the University of Chicago's Floyd Reeves) last week reported: "In thousands of school districts the education offered is not good enough-even for yesterday...