Word: repeatability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...polite nothings about it next day, or dismissed it out of hand as "another of Smith's amateurish suggestions." European ears pricked up with interest, but no impartial and potent U. S. economist bothered to voice an opinion, except ever-vocal Nicholas Murray Butler who took occasion to repeat that he is for immediate and complete Cancellation. The one tangible new foreign debt idea voiced this year by a real figure in U. S. public life was thus tabled...
...cultivate. But such cerebral mat ters have little interest for the rank & file of orchestra subscribers. Philadelphians were plainly grateful last week for new music they could understand. With the 532 performers they applauded vigorously the man who had insisted on giving it. then conducted it superbly. Stokowski will repeat the performance April 20 in Manhattan...
...grave of the man that had made him possible. the Guard stood by eagerly waiting for the great epitaph which the Emperor would pronounce as he stood before the tomb of Rousseau. Marshalls leaned forward on their scabbards, courtiers strained unintelligent ears to catch a phrase they might repeat. All waited a trifle obviously. Napoleon in his favourite green stared down at the stone and murmured half to himself, "The world would be a better place if neither you nor I had lived...
...Hauptmann was invited to the U. S. by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. With him came his second wife and his son, Dr. Benvenuto Hauptmann, translator of Conrad and Kipling, interpreter for his father. At Columbia University Dr. Hauptmann delivered a Goethe centenary address which he was to repeat at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, George Washington University. Said he: "... Man, gripped in disillusionment, blinded by the light of his own achievements, has failed to keep pace with the march of physical accomplishments." Asked in Manhattan if he had more works in mind, he replied, "That rests with God." TIME erred...
...approach to the subject but an evolution necessary to the increased maturity of the student. The intelligent and active mind in the school should be able to step into the college at its natural level and be able to continue where it left off, rather than being forced to repeat or retreat. If the boy is to come upon the tutorial system at college, then the school should train him to use this system. As education is essentially an attitude of mind it must be common to both secondary school and to college. Both parts of the system should...