Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such intangible but potentially powerful ideas that the value of sending students abroad must be discovered. Here one finds intimately connected education, peace, and all the other worth-while ideals of mankind. As a stitch in the vast fabric of human events, these student ambassadors, quantitatively considered, represent little. But when many such stitches are woven together in a thread, the direction of events may be changed...
Hopkins salaries, ranging up to only $9,000, are lower than most. Well worth the difference to most of its faculty scholars are their freedom and prestige, plus their snugly satisfying communal life in the pleasant residential section off the trim, spacious, Georgian campus at Homewood, three miles north of Baltimore's business centre. Nonetheless President Bowman soon discovered in his University symptoms of the creeping paralysis caused by financial malnutrition, signs that the decline which Hopkins fears had already begun. Before he had been long in office, famed Experimental Psychologist Knight Dunlap departed after 19 years at Hopkins...
...first Boston performance the Hollywood Ballet proved itself an organization to be encouraged. The young body of dancers, labouring under a severe economic handicap that forbade the assistance of an orchestra, presented a program of mixed value, with admirable determination. Although the musical worth and choreography of their first three offerings, "Danse", "Le Maitre A Danser", and "Le Bonheur, Feerie", may be strongly questioned, the company more than redeemed itself with the continued brilliance of its costumes and the excellence of "Hollywood...
...sloop. But the finale falls flat once again. Preston and Carole are married while conducting a licentious altercation. Pathe news catches the spirit of the thing, and elsewhere in the program very impressvely sums up the last twenty-five years in all their hectic strife. But the trick is worth only one rendering, and that has already been given by a much more charming pair of warriors, Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert, in "The Bride Comes Home". "Love Before Breakfast"; sour belches after
There are still some who believe that a man has a right to waste his opportunities at Harvard, provided only he pays his tuition, and keeps up to the minimum standards. Admitted that for every dollar paid to the University, a man gets direct benefits worth many times that, but do not the minimum requirements in fact limit the responsibilities of everyone's virtual scholarship...