Word: performances
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus to mankind who always love a doer of great deeds. Franklin Roosevelt showed himself in the figure of a Hercules striving to perform immense but modern labors, of a hero who in the U. S. tradition does all his labors on a neighborly basis. He himself expressed as nearly as it is likely to be expressed, the result of this attitude, the reason for the vote of Nov. 6 when he declared...
...recurrent criticism of the tutorial system has been that the tutors are too young, and that the turnover among them is too large. The average tutor spends several years learning how to perform his functions; if he fails to secure promotion he goes elsewhere, and must be supplanted by an inexperienced younger man. Worse still, tutoring has often been relegated to graduate students who could give only a fractional part of their time and interest...
...rarely been regarded, either by the University or by the tutors, as a career. Often it has been not been not even the doorway to a career. The pay has been inadequate, the work exacting and often exhausting, and the tutor knew that, no matter how well he might perform his task, his promotion to an assistant professorship would depend upon qualifications among which tutoring ability ought to be one of the most important, but that it would rarely be given due weight. If he was a good tutor, the fact would not be held against him, but neither would...
...successors do much until the perfection of brain surgery 20 years ago. Brain surgeons stopped the symptoms simply by cutting the acoustic nerve and disconnecting the diseased ear from the brain. Such an operation, however, resulted unavoidably in total deafness. For this reason most surgeons were reluctant to perform...
...chubby, serious lad with a mental age of 16, a conversational level above that of the ordinary adult. Only normal in his physical development, he suffers from a desire to revise the rules of every game he plays, sometimes bursts out crying if he loses. He likes best to perform feats of daring. Pet dislikes are fighting and arguing, both of which he thinks are "needless and quite pointless, since nothing is ever settled by them." In the use of his hands Bunny is backward. Prescribed for him and other bright pupils at the Ethical Culture School are carpentry, clay...