Word: outgrowth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...club, the Harvard Line and Color Club, has originated as an outgrowth of the Fine Arts Department for the purpose of stimulating interest in Fine Arts and to bring the professors and students together informally. At present the membership of 28 consists half of faculty members and half of students. The club plans to maintain continual exhibitions of the members' works in the rooms that are soon to be occupied by the club and to hold occasional exchange exhibitions with a similar club at Princeton. It also hopes to bring well known artists to speak at open meetings' on subjects...
...English medical schools are concentrated mainly in London and are almost invariably the intimate outgrowth of hospitals. For many years apprenticeship as a " dresser " or " clinical clerk " was the approved method of training for the medical profession. Special emphasis was placed on bedside instruction, conducted by the staff physicians of the hospitals. "Walking the hospitals," i. e., making the ward rounds, to which American students are introduced but sparingly until their interne years, became the favorite sport of British medical students. Laboratory and lecture work in the British schools was weak until recent years, but the great hospitals...
...curious outgrowth of the strolling player idea has cropped up in the Ford Truck tour of New England by the Jitney Players. Headed by Bushnell Cheney, youthful Yale graduate, and his wife, Alice Keating, the group will present Creatures of Impulse, by W. S. Gilbert, and James Branch Cabell's The Jewel Merchants to New England communities throughout the summer. Their stage consists of automatic contrivances built on the body of two Ford trucks. Their season opened at Madison, Conn., July...
...political policy of the American Federation of Labor is the outgrowth of many years of experience and the result of long study and observation of conditions, methods and theories in the United States and other countries...
...doctrinaire and who find satisfaction chiefly in the formulation of theoretical propositions. As to them let it be said at the outset that American labor's political policy was designed to satisfy the requirements of the great mass of wage earners of our country and that it is the outgrowth of their experience, study and observation. Any person who comes forward with a proposal that differs from their conclusions will have to prove to them that their conclusions are mistaken...