Word: result
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work done by the teacher. Of course, that statement is too strong but there is too much of that. The thing that we find it hard to do, is to get the young American to stand on his own feet, we try to tell him, and so the result is that all he has to do is remember it. The proper relationship is that of master and apprentice, and the first duty of a teacher is to be a student, and then the teacher relationship comes when the young mind comes into contact with an older mind. It is very...
Although modern inventions have succeeded in uniting rural and urban communities into much closer relations than formerly, they have not quite removed the problem of the isolation of the country boy and girl. A discussion of this eternal problem is to be found in the New Republic, and the result is more superficial than the subject merits. The writer has evidently based his judgements on the rural youth of yesterday, not that of today, or even more to the point, of tomorrow. His analysis amounts to nothing more than a compromise. "They seem healthier than the urban youths--probably because...
...prove that, sentimentally at least, the citizens of the United States are the natural enemies of England and friends of Germany. He cites boyhood memories, all attesting the benevolence of German cooks, saloon keepers and policemen--the era of the latter type being previous to the Irish invasion. The result is that one recalls the Germans as delightful people and the English as the national opponents...
...huddle was a very natural answer to this problem. From the huddle a team can come out into any one of a multitude of formations the exact nature of which is concealed from the defense until almost the instant when the ball is put in play. This result could not be achieved if the team made all its moves from a standard formation, because the defense could move with, and as fast as the offense...
...been perfectly carried out. Mr. Edward Massey, the director for the Harvard Dramatic Club, has invented a thousand entertaining pieces of business where I had left great gaps in the play--and every one of these is entirely in keeping with the major intention of the play. The result is a production which seems to me entirely fresh in method and refreshing in manner...