Word: platform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days ago on the platform of a railway station in Warsaw, a Russian monarchist student assassinated M. Voikoff, the Soviet Minister to Poland. The Polish Minister at Moscow was immediately instructed to express to the Soviet government Poland's deep regret; President Moseicki of Poland sent a message of like effect to President Kalinin of the Soviet; the Polish foreign minister forwarded a similar communication to the Soviet Foreign Office. The Polish government seemed to have done all that was reasonably possible. But the matter was not allowed to drop by the Soviet officials, and a sharp protest was returned...
...Fall and, in addition, many professors welcome informal calls at their homes. But neither these nor similar methods of bringing the student closer to his teacher has quite succeeded in training mentor and pupil to the realization that each is, after all, more than a machine. Too often the platform lecturer is led to believe that his listeners are entirely devoid of humanistic attributes. Therefore whatever can be done to demonstrate that good instruction is appreciated and that a year of talking to impassive faces has not been a barren year is not unwelcome. As in a theatre, the noise...
...await M. le Président. Round about stood, like seeming giants, the Foot Guards in their enormous, tall, bearskin hats. On prancing coal black horses sat stiffly the Horse Guards, clad in white buckskin breeches and silver-plated body armor. Across the Royal Waiting Room and down the platform was spread a great crimson carpet...
...fifth, being a philosophere,-a man who has some clarity of vision does not worry. He is not dumb. Because he fails to join in the titter which floods its liquid way about the platform of learning, the Parnassus of dulness, never believe him uneducated in humor. Rather he is too well educated in humor. Four out of five get it because they lack one of two things, good taste-or good grades...
Featured by platform addresses from outstanding men in the fields of religion, labor, education and international problems the annual Northfield Student Conference will be held at East Northfield, Massachusetts from June 15 to 23. These Conferences are conducted by the New England Field Council which represents the Student Associations of New England, five state committees and the National Council of Young Men's Christian Associations...