Word: reports
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the suggestion of his annual report for closer study of secondary school problems, President Conant yesterday announced the members of a new committee to "consider and report upon the need of American Secondary schools for teachers prepared to cope with the wide variety of problems now confronting public education...
...Louis v. John Henry Lewis (Wed. 10 p. m. NBC), all-Negro heavyweight championship fight. Blow-by-blow report by Clem McCarthy and Edwin C. Hill...
...rare cases like the late T. E. Lawrence, they are generally ignored by everybody but fellow professionals. But their patient patchings have from time to time restored wonderful form to old cultures. Such restorations were James Henry Breasted's epochal History of Egypt (1905), Sir Arthur Evans' report on Pre-Hellenic Crete (1921-35). One result is that any good advertising artist now knows more about the very fine arts of the Nile valley and the Aegean islands than Sir Joshua Reynolds, for example, ever guessed...
...Catalonian decroo closed all factories and most stores, cafes and business places, with the exception of war industries, and ordered all men under 55 and women from 18 to 40 to report to military authorities for assignments...
...sincere and genuine encouragement given to extra-curricular activities and sports in the part of President Conant's report relating to the College is indeed a welcome word. The President has been generally thought of as little concerned with any sort of academic affair not at least indirectly tied up with "studies." His support for concentration conferences and House discussion groups was rather to be expected as in the indirect study line, but the boost for outside initiative and the declaration that "no one need fear overemphasis on studies" should serve to dispel the unfortunate and disagreeable shadow which...