Word: sills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan apartment one early morning last week Ivan Rhuele Gates said to his wife: "I think I'll jump out of the window." His wife ran to him, clutched his waist, pleaded with him to listen. Brawny Ivan Gates ignored her, walked to the window, climbed upon the sill and-nearly dragging his small wife with him-jumped. Thus, dismally, died "Van" Gates, 42, Ringling of the flying circus era. Frustrated by the boom of commercial aviation. Van Gates had lost his money, his health. Few weeks ago he was operating "museums" on Broadway and at Coney Island where...
...accept an invitation to be present. But Bruce Barton was on the program as toastmaster, the following were invited as speakers and listeners: Headmaster Lewis Perry of Exeter, national president of Alpha Delta Phi; President Walter Clark Teagle of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey; Father Frederick Herbert Sill, headmaster of Kent School; President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago; Surgeon General Robert Patterson, U.S.A...
...Personality, teaching ability, and enthusiasm, rather than the number or quality of degrees to a man's credit, should be the primary considerations in the choice of teachers for elementary college courses," said the Reverend F. H. Sill, headmaster of the Kent School, in an interview last night...
...superior learning of a Ph.D.," continued Father Sill," is wasted on the ears of bored Freshmen; only through talented and, above all, enthusiastic teachers, can their interest be properly aroused. Obviously, a teacher must know his subject, and the more he knows about it, the better, other things being equal; the point to be emphasized is the diminishing importance of successive additions to a teacher's scholastic accomplishments, beyond a certain point. Thus, among a group of prospective teachers who have a comprehensive, if unspecialized grasp of a subject, the scholastic attainment of individuals in the group, compared to their...
Captain Sharp, who, in his first season at Harvard, turned out the team which won the 1929 indoor and outdoor intercollegiate trophies, has been ordered to Fort Sill to take charge of the advanced course i the Field Artillery School...