Word: support
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...between the local and foreign directorates of the school has led to a temporary recall of the Harvard representative, in an effort to smooth out a situation that has grown complicated. The director of the school, E. Telford Erickson who has engaged in an extensive series of lectures in support of the school throughout the country during the past year, is returning this summer to engage in conference to discuss the future policy and organization of the school...
...been asked to recommend theatrical policies. If his wishes are approved the Fair will include an unprecedented gathering of dramatic talent. There will be perhaps ten theatres, each devoted to some distinct phase of the art, each emphasizing the most advanced ideas which as yet receive little or no support on Manhattan's Broadway or Chicago's Randolph Street. Foreign features-Siamese dancing, marionettes from Java-will be exhibited by natives in the native fashion, not vaudevillized or adapted to U. S. taste. Mr. Geddes is going to suggest an island supper club, in which the dance floor...
...having a war. Dean wanted to snap up the offer with the aid of the tycoons of his own race in the U. S. He would install power in the Pedro Gorino, transport U. S. Negroes back to Africa by the boatload. But his race brethren gave him no support...
...youths in uniform, slashing the composition boldly from right to left in the lower right hand side are three figures symbolic of France. Belgium, and England France in the foreground, wearing the Phrygian cap, carries an infant on her left arm and stretches out her right to receive the support of the American soldiers. Behind her, Belgium, a broken sword in her hand, has swooned, and is upheld by other soldiers, while she protects herself partially with the robe of Brittania, a helmeted figure behind her. In the upper left-hand corner is a magnificent representation of the American eagle...
...appeal to students, by the practical and professional value of its training as shown by the accomplishments and attitudes of its graduates, by the demand for its product by business men, by the contributions of its Faculty to an important area of human knowledge and endeavor, by the support which it has attracted from industry and from business men, or by its promise of further accomplishment in all these fields. It may fairly forget the early questioning as to its status in the University and devote its attention in the future to perfecting its methods and material, to the strengthening...