Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expressive style that is straight-forward and almost conversational Dorothy Baker describes how Rick Martin, a boy with musical talent, naturally turned toward swing music since it was the only music where he lived. There, in the midst of good jazz which, as Miss Baker says, 'comes right out of genuine urge and doesn't come for money," the boy lived and breathed swing and gradually developed into one of the finest trumpeters in the country. Success and money came rapidly but they could not stop Rick, he couldn't stop; he kept on playing-pushing himself beyond the limits...
...value of a well-organized program of intramural athletics. To the aspiring athlete of sub-varsity talents, it gives the opportunity to take part in those sports which he enjoys playing. To the collegiate rank and file, it offers stimulus to widespread athletic participation, to pleasurable exercise directed toward the development of sound bodies for sane minds. To rapidly spreading spectator sports and grandstand gymnastics, hailed by our fashionable pessimists as the sign of twilight in a decadent generation, it deals an effective body blow...
...released yesterday by Mr. Samborski, Director of Intramural Athletics, cannot be but completely gratifying. The fact that a predominance of the undergraduate body placed athletics first among extra-curricular activities in the Crimson poll of last spring amply demonstrated the importance of House sports. The present report further points toward increasing importance. A tripling in the participation rate since class athletics gave way to House sports, a doubling of the available sports, an increase to 57 percent participation all are irrefutable indications...
These are philosophical fundamentals, without any practical connotations. Yet, it is only if we have a burning faith in them that we can forgive democracy its shortcomings, overlook its stumbling gait, and use it as best we can toward the attainment of ultimate destinies...
...priori, the traditional conception of education demands that the students will work hard and consistently on some straight "path" toward some nebulous "goal". It is taken for granted that the aspiring candidate for an A.B. will not waste time, that every hour of his working day will be used for acquiring that amount of knowledge which brands him an educated man. So inhuman are most of those who make up theories on education, that they overlook the very human habits of wandering from the "path" and tripping up here and there. They forget that no man ever learned a thing...