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This outstanding interest in Professor Peabody's life dominated his career as a teacher and his formulation of social ethics as a field of university study was unquestionably a pioneer service. It was his belief as a Christian minister that Christianity, rightly understood and applied, would furnish the best guide for the solution of the many critical problems of family life and social welfare which the changes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries had brought to the front. While the present trends of constructive work in the direction of social amelioration may be less visibly and consciously inspired by religious...
Arriving at Brooklyn's Public School No. 153, where playmates were bringing Christmas gifts to their teachers, 8-year-old Alonso Romero, son of Mexican Ambassador to Venezuela Dr. Miguel Alonso Romero, presented his teacher with a 2½-carat diamond ring. The teacher had Alonso and the ring taken to the Sheepshead Bay police station where Alonso explained he had found it on the sidewalk outside his home. Worth $900, it was identified as one recently reported missing...
Made several years ago in Europe Slalom has German dialog in the rare moments when anyone speaks. Most of it is pixie pantomime, easily understood. The two ski teachers dominate the picture are on the screen almost all the time doing everything on skis from Christies to Geländesprünge with extraordinary skill Walter Riml is a ski teacher in the Tyrol Guzzi Lantschner comes of a famed skiing family, took second in the last Olympic slalom. Their complete mastery is pointed up both by their continual burlesque of normal ski technique and by the beauty...
...Schneider ski school, Skimeister Schneider has had as many as 3,000 pupils a year, 400 a day. The school has 25 assistant teachers. Fee for pupils is $5 a week, for four hours a day six days a week. The pupils live in hotels, assemble on a level field each morning, pass examinations in stemming and turning to pass from one class to the next. Having put St. Anton and Arlberg on the map, Hannes Schneider, son of a goat-herder, owns the biggest house in the village (13 rooms, two baths), which he built largely with...
...skipped out before the spring examinations, got a job soloing in Manhattan's Brick Presbyterian Church, later earned $700 a week singing Lieut. Niki in Oscar Straus's A Waltz Dream. Money saved therefrom took him to Italy where he studied under Caruso's old teacher Vincenzo Lombardi. Cynical old Lombardi said he would make better progress with an Italian name. Translated into Eduardo di Giovanni, he cut a wide singing swath through Europe, kept the name until he returned to the U. S. in 1919 to sing with the Chicago Opera...