Word: supervisor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cranford, N. J., two mild cows stepped into the middle of a highroad and fell asleep. For one hour, motorists coaxed, kicked, whistled, roared, cursed, stroked. The two would not budge. At last three men who were friends of the cows came by. They-the chief of police, the supervisor of the school, the principal of the school-per- suaded the comfortable cows to leave the smooth, warm surface of their roadbed...
Partaking as it does of the nature of a special tutorial system, such a plan would have many of the peculiar tutorial advantages. Personal contact, appreciation of individual difficulties, all the special attention which a tutor or a supervisor can give and which a large course of necessity fails to supply, are perhaps more needed in the teaching of English than anywhere else. The practical difficulties of the suggestion, inadequacy of instructors and scarcity of student time, could be met by having the instructor meet his charges at considerable intervals, watching their development rather than furnishing them with constant precepts...
...views on the motion picture industry will be the subject of his Union speech. As general supervisor of the entire business he is in intimate touch with its problems and policies. He was formerly Postmaster General under President Harding, but resigned that position to assume the task of straightening out the difficulties which the new and rapidly growing movie industry was encountering. Since he assumed the newly created office, motion picture companies have eliminated many of the evils which formerly retarded their progress. He will tell of what has been done in this industry, and what he expects...
Tomorrow morning in the Faculty Room of University Hall Professor Leo R. Lewis '89 of the Tufts College Department of Music, and Ralph L. Baldwin, Supervisor of Music in Hartford public schools, will consider the question of "How to Stimulate the Appreciation and Practice of Good Music". The discussion will be led by Otis W. Caldwell, of the Lincoln School of New York City, Frank S. Hackett of the Riverdale Country Day School, New York, and Eugene R. Smith, of the Beaver Country Day School of Chestnut Hill...
...estate (since grown to $89,700,000) left by To- baccoman Duke, state inheritance tax alone was $2,581,366.57. Of this, Somerset County, N. J., is entitled to 5%, which is more than $125,000. Surrogate (Supervisor of Wills) Calvin McMurtrey of Somerset County is expected to get $89,000 in fees. In Somerset County is the 20,000-acre Duke estate, which has 35 miles of paved roads and many fine landscapes adorned with "beautiful statues." There are also Duke homes in Charlotte, N. C., Newport, R. I. and one in Manhattan, on Fifth Avenue, which is thought...