Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With them goes a roomful of battered furnishings which have made theirs the gayest or the most peaceful room in the whole college; a sheaf of notes--the ones from that certain course which really made them feel they knew something about something, which they couldn't quite bring themselves to throw out after the last exam, and which now represent the sole tangible total of a thousand lectures and a thousand hours in the libraries--their college education in final essence. And the name of Harvard, that which they can never lose now, graven on a sheet of parchment...
...people how miserable they are, how rotten their country is, what little opportunity they have to better themselves, and therefore what their government ought to do and is going to do for them is ... a contemptible kind of demagoguery. . . . The plain hard truth is that these kids and our whole population now demand many times more of everything than [the older generation] did and are not willing to work as hard or suffer as much...
...Educational Research at Ohio State University. He has also given personnel advice to business organizations, has edited Ohio State's Journal of Higher Education. A critic of the "intellectualistic" educational theories of University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, Dr. Cowley believes in educating "the whole man,'' personality and all. Going last week to succeed Dr. Frederick Carlos Ferry, who is retiring after 21 years as Hamilton's president, Bill Cowley professed to be not worried but delighted at Hamilton's sturdy traditions, which he thought offered him a strong foundation on which...
During a performance of La Boheme in London's Covent Garden, Italian Tenor Beniamino Gigli unintentionally lighted a stage stove in the garret scene. Intrepid Gigli, singing like a lark the whole time, edged into the wings, seized a bucket of water, doused the fire...
...issues, often the result of manipulation. Charles H. Dow, a small, precise man, first editor of The Wall Street Journal, had a different idea; he had been keeping averages of railroad and industrial stock prices since 1897, had found beneath individual fluctuations a trend of the market as a whole...