Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Valisan of Vladeska, Russian wolfhound, sheer white except for a black patch over his eye. He stalked negligently around the ring, content to give the rabble the privilege of seeing, for once, an aristocrat in ermine. J. Allen Dunn, novelist, judged this class, adeptly weeding out all those dogs which looked too much like the trademark of Publisher Alfred Knopf...
...Professor Ross is not, and is not likely to be, president of Wisconsin. He has twice (1914, 1915) been president of the American Sociological Society. He has written books, Honest Dollars, Sin and Society, Latter Day Sinners and Saints, The Russian Soviet Republic. But Wisconsin has a brand new president of whom it expects much, Dr. Glenn Frank, lately editor of the Century. And Dr. Frank is still on unfamiliar ground. He has been going cautiously, observingly; has been noncommittal in deed and statement, so far. He has said he is "willing to be reactionary as the Tsar of Russia...
...American educational system took form in the forties of the last century and stopped progressing between 1914 and 1918. The present Russian plan of education dates from 1920 and the last five years has been a period of steady advance. We are now in the old world, the new world has again advanced westward", declared Mr. Scott Nearing in speaking to the members of the Liberal Club yesterday on education in the Soviet government...
...There are four elements in the Russian system of education. The elementary schools carry the student to the age of 15, and the professional or high schools offer four or five year courses. All Russian students between the ages of six and 19 are required to attend these schools. The next step is the technical school and the highest branch of learning is the so called 'institute' which corresponds to our graduate schoool...
...clock in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall. Mr. Alfred Swan has come from New York to give the lecture with his own pianoforte illustrations. Mr. Swan is a recognized authority on the impressionism of the modern French school and the tremendous influence it has had on recent Russian music...