Word: performance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emphasizes this prevalent error and shapes its suggestions to correct it, the conference will perform a service of real value to American secondary education. The Depression has been calamitous, but it has served well if it can effect a forceful reiteration of the medieval assertion that the foundations of education are to be found in "men, not buildings...
Unlike the existing airlines, which delegate their ground handling to Postal Telegraph or Railway Express Agency, Air Express Corp. will perform its own pick-up and delivery, thus insure full, permanent control of its business sources...
...securing Harvard men to deliver bulk packages of food and clothing to the Red Cross distributing centers in Boston. Volunteers have been asked to spend three hours at any time of the day that they choose. The Red Cross in the past has often used college men to perform its pressing relief functions, and as the winter season approaches, there has been a growing volume of demand for these materials which the Red Cross distributes. Those men who are willing to give some of their time in the next two weeks have been asked to go to Phillips Brooks House...
...commission, whose work is chiefly in research, this year, as a result of the establishment of a state commission to perform the routine of field investigation in various parts of the state, also maintains a clinic in the Children's Hospital in Boston, under the direction of A. T. Legg, assistant professor of Orthopedic Surgery. This clinic diagnoses and supervises cases of the disease which occur in Boston. The research staff is endeavoring to discover a more effective serum than the one now used. Contributions for the fund are being received by Kidder Peabody and Company, of Boston...
...individuality. Each generation establishes its own problems and its own duties. War was their problem; it was too late to undeclare it; no duty was left them but the answer of the summons. The abolition of war is our problem; but we can neither solve our problem nor perform our duty by mocking the heroes and the martyrs of the past, who knew how their problem had to be solved and went steadfastly to solve it."""" H. B. Jaffee...