Word: suspicions
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...training. It is to be hoped that men will look forward more and more to the work of teaching music in the public schools. Inadequately educated teachers and inferior standards of music have for a long time caused this branch of the profession to be looked upon with suspicion. It is the function of the college to rectify this, and Harvard hopes to offer a real service to the cause of music and education by sending out every year well-trained musicians to this work
...training. It is to be hoped that men will look forward more and more to the work of teaching music in the public schools. Inadequately educated teachers and inferior standards of music have for a long time caused this branch of the profession to be looked upon with suspicion. It is the function of the college to rectify this, and Harvard hopes to offer a real service to the cause of music and education by sending out every year well-trained musicians to this work
...freedom from discrimination on the grounds of race or religion." A few critics will complain that the report, with so many additional suggestions, leaves the issue just as much open as ever; far more will notice with disappointment that the committee has stood in evident dread of arousing "damaging suspicion" through the popular press and that it has feared to recommend "so rational a method" as personal conference or intelligence tests because it "appears inexpedient." And, if they seek suggestions either conclusive or startling they will look in vain. What they may forget is the fact that the obvious answer...
Even as when a cow eats a cocoanut or an elephant does a high dive, it is an event when a ball player writes a book. There are those, to be sure, who view with unworthy suspicion professional athletes in the world of literature. And it is even whispered that a certain prominent heavyweight and an equally prominent golf champion do not actually compose the treatises attributed to them in the public prints. But be these things as they very well may, Everett ("Deacon") Scott, of the New York Yankees, has entered the field of literature with a novel entitled...
World Opinion. The eyes of the world are upon the fifth Pan American Conference now in session at Santiago de Chile. Secretary of State Hughes, in a message to the Conference, made a plea for a better understanding between nations, the removal of suspicion, distrust and hatred. Every chancellery in Europe it watching the deliberations at the Chilean capital with the keenest interest, with curiosity, with envy, with hatred. Opinion is graduated: there are expressions of genuine goodwill; of mathematical what-will-it-all-come-to. Some see in the Conference the rich New World pitting itself against...