Word: performer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even more interesting than the size, suddenness and secrecy of this corporation's advent, were passages of two clauses buried in the application. The corporation sought the right "to perform any act permitted by the law to the end that . . . every child may enjoy the right to be born well, reach school age well, and be fit mentally and physically for American citizenship"; and the power "to set aside out of surplus and not profits ..." funds to carry out the ideals expressed above. These funds might be used in "building hospitals, recreation grounds, and helping established child welfare organizations...
...vegetable patch of industry-and usually with beneficial results. Last spring The Nation advanced the theory that the whole body of college students are fit candidates for such stringent routine that they may face the "realities of industrial America." Therefore The Nation offered prizes to undergraduates who should perform manual labor during the summer of 1925 and describe their experiences in an essay. The winning articles are now being published, the first one written by a woman student of Antioch College who worked in three different factories successively ladling jam into bottles, slipping candy into little frilled cups, and finally...
...University track season reaches an early season pinnacle this week when the Crimson representatives perform in two meets, the Millrose A. C. games in New York, Thursday and the B. A. A. games in Boston Saturday evening...
...brewer brewing a brew, a baker baking a cake, a woman having a gown made, a huntsman buying a horn-all these and many another involved in an operation where it is the result that counts, perform one act in common. They sip the brew, taste the batter, try on the gown, wind the horn. So, thought Chicago's school superintendent, William McAndrew, should those supporting public education be permitted to ladle out a sample of the educational pot and try it to see if the contents have taste, body, zest, quality. Last week he caused 40 eighth-grade...
...happily there is a less impossible mode of improvement at hand. It is not the method of these preliminary courses and lectures, likely as dull and incomprehensible as the incomprehensibilities they try to explain. The highest service the explanatory lecture can perform is to accustom the student to the mere mechanics of his surroundings. For introduction to intellectual deeps and desires, there is a better path, namely, the instructor himself. To him who makes plain without making easy, makes colorful without making tawdry makes profound without making involved, initiates will gladly turn. Charles Kingsley's "Let not the sourfaced teach...