Word: understand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concerning his lectures for the coming half-year, the French geographer said that the planned to give his classroom lectures in English, since he doubted the capacity of the general run of students to understand the technical French required for lectures on geography. His public afternoon lectures, which will be given weekly in the institute of Geographical Research, will, however, be given in French. His first lecture will be at 4.30, February 11 on "Les Origines de L'Agriculture Francaise...
...speakers' table of the banquet. From their successes Dr. Wilson drew a moral: "The orthopedic surgeons have the duty not only of relieving the patient of physical deformity, but of watching over his mental training during the long periods of hospitalization. The cripple must be made to understand that while his disability can be greatly relieved, he will always carry some slight defect and his chances of success in life can be greatly helped by proper psychological preparation...
...educational problem divides itself into many parts. The first is to provide the technical man who may enter government service with a proper understanding of the fundamentals of economics and government so that he may have the necessary background to understand the social and political implications of his governmental work...
After a visit to the Fine Arts this week, it is not difficult to understand why the National Board of Review has chosen "Man of Aran" as the outstanding picture of 1934. Robert Flaherty, that master of photography, again has travelled to one of the stranger portions of this earth and returned with scenes of nature--clouds, rocks, and sea--which are rivalled only by Eisenstch. Clouds, rocks, and sea--but mostly sea, calm, seemingly docile but cunning, the willing food-source for the Man of Aran--or roaring, raging, scaling cliffs, reaching out to engulf the whole of that...
...first time in ten years the most enigmatic of modern composers had dared the sea, which he hates, to travel to the U. S., where he knows that even people who fail to understand his music will pay to see him. In Manhattan he was given his first reception by the League of Composers, long hospitable to all his efforts. Before he returns to Europe in April Stravinsky will have conducted big orchestras in Milwaukee, Chicago, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Boston. Other cities will hear him as a pianist when he plays transcriptions of his works with Violinist Samuel Dushkin...