Word: teste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the heat of their bodies. Drushka and Svacha bring dishes of food. The whole company lead the bride and groom near to the bed in preparation. Bride takes off shoes of groom (symbol of submission), guests bring seven sheaves of wheat (symbol of plenitude). Svacha brings white sheet (test of virginity). Groom strikes bride with whip (symbol of possession). Bride and groom embrace. Drushka brings a stall, with calves and lambs painted on it, and chickens carved in wood on top. Svat takes out couple who are warming bed. Drushka puts stall as screen before bed. Bride and groom...
...Harvard Business School is admittedly one of the pioneers in its field and must blaze much of its own trail. Time and opportunity to test out its methods of instruction and the material which it treats must be given to those in charge before demands are made of them for quantity production. The day will come when the Harvard Business School will have to interest itself in quantity as well as quality, but if time is given it at the start to lay a sound foundation, it will not have to fear for the quality of its instruction even though...
Among the new plans recently announced by the Academic Council in charge of the annual Current Events Contest are proposals to change the type of essay required, to lengthen the period of time covered by the facts contest, to change the date of the test so as not to interfere with Mid-year or hour examinations, and to bar winners of local contests from competing again until a year has elapsed after their winning...
Measured by that test, this is the most successful Lampoon of them all. And perhaps, as the pendulum called progress swings slowly to and fro, there will come a time when touchiness will disappear and the Lampoon can be flerce and angry and satiric--and be regarded, nevertheless, not as a menace but as a joke
Fifteen years ago three men sat in a bookshop. They argued as to whether Lord Dunsany's play The Glittering Gate was easy to act. Finding a copy of it on a shelf, they made the simplest test. Robert Edmond Jones shaped scenery from wrapping paper. Philip Moeller and Edward Goodman gestured, intoned romantic lines. Helen Westley, who happened in, was audience. From this beginning came the Washington Square Players and eventually the Theatre Guild.* Starting officially in 1919, the Guildsmen planned two plays for their first season. They estimated they would need $2,000. They got $675-revenue...