Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...value of the study of Anglo-Saxon, inevitable fate of any man having aspirations toward a Summa Cum Laude in the Department of English in Harvard College, is questioned by the Daily Princetonian in a recent editorial. One gathers that the situation is even more stringent at that University than here at Cambridge. The Princetonian decries the fact that "undergraduates are forced to take this course"' and the Princetonian objects, although conscious that such objections are likely to fall on deaf ears...
...land of hope, a country where millions of men and women feel a new intensity in the dull business of living . . . women have a freedom exceeding even that of America and Scandinavia; children have a primary consideration unknown elsewhere; and the whole machinery of the State is directed .toward raising the standards of living of the millions. No government in history has set out so deliberately and so successfully, to annihilate illiteracy, to build up mass health, to set its people economically free...
...Last week Physical Director John A. Davis made a statement anent a new football game at Stevens; played in sneakers & gymnasium suits; akin to "Touch Football," played at many a school informally; at many a week-end party. "The present system has changed the entire attitude of the students toward sports. Four hundred and fifty students now play football-and like...
Leaving Philadelphia to keep a promise, he darted toward Long Island where he had pledged his presence at a charity air circus. As he slid neatly to earth, the frantic crowd broke police lines, swooped toward his plane. With the mob spirit hurling those in front straight to death in the still whirling propeller blades, Col. Lindbergh threw wide the throttle; wheeled the roaring plane just in time; flew away a lifesaver; lighted on an adjoining field...
...ground gained during and since the War in making salaries more nearly match the work done," warned Dean Arthur Herbert Wilde of Boston University's school of education last week. "Teachers now in service need to advise very carefully all their younger friends who are looking toward teaching. Unless they have strong purpose and scholarship and attractive personality, these young people should be turned away from the teaching profession." Every teacher, man or woman, must come to regard teaching as a permanent occupation, not a makeshift until he or she studies law or goes into business or accumulates...