Word: performer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...means inconsiderable feat of winning the 440 and the 880 and placing second in the mile his own efforts being sufficient to give the title to Columbia. He has won Olympic honors with the epee and the foil, but it is with spiked shoes that he will perform this afternoon, when he will appear on the Stadium cinders in a special half-mile race...
...will a greater emphasis upon the possible development of the mind to see and understand more quickly and accurately mean in terms of the work of the classes. May it mean that our class-rooms will more and more become places in which the students rather than the teachers perform? May it mean that usually the best teacher will be the man who says the least to his students? May it mean the virtual scrapping of the lecture system...
...Harvard once had a vital duty to perform in meeting the needs of her commonwealth and her New England, she has an even higher duty to perform in meeting the needs of an intellectually careless nation. That she is doing so is apparent to the careful observer, and press or public to the contrary, may she so continue. For the need of University training in the Harvard tradition of intellectual vigor is more than ever necessary for the maintenance of national self respect...
...that the years bring to great ladies who express themselves emphatically, has harangued women in clubs and men. Soon Mrs. Belmont is sailing for England. Her grandson, the Marquis of Blanford, has asked her to be godmother at the christening of her great-grandson; the Archbishop of Canterbury will perform the ceremony; the godfather will be King George of England...
...would be quite permissible for us to try our hand at the bassoon for a few minutes. The chorus can hardly be called a chorus, for the young ladies--there are, strange and wonderful to tell, no young men--all contribute extensively to the dialogue as well as perform most amazing individual and collective Terpsichorean tricks...