Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...living." Unfortunately, Mr. Butler supplies ample contradiction for himself. He regrets the fact that the elementary schools have deviated from their proper business of training young children in good physiological habits, of teaching them the elementary forces of nature, of giving them the ability to read understandingly, to write legibly, to use numbers correctly. These have been pushed into the background "by all sorts of enterprises that have their origin in emotionalism, in ignorance, or in mere vanity." A great deal of what Mr. Butler says about our plumbing for the full and free expression among the school children...
...present there are 333,000 persons in Massachusetts, ten years of age and over, who need instruction in speaking, reading and writing English. Of these 118,000 are unable to write in any language and 215,000 are unable to read and write English. Ninety percent of these people are twenty-one years of age and over. Three hundred thousand men of voting age are unnaturalized...
...pledge cards. Seats (free) are reserved for such volunteers, who should report at the Hall (Massachusetts avenue entrance) at five minutes to eight on the evening of the meeting. Formal dress is not necessary. I shall be glad to have the names of such volunteers before Monday evening next. Write to me at 23 Hawthorn street, or telephone Cambridge 142-W. PROFESSOR R. A. DALY. November...
...against numbering the players seem to be: first, that the spectators, are not sufficiently interested to look up the names that go with the numbers: second, that the strongest proponents of the system are the newspaper men, who should know the players anyway and are not qualified to write about the game if they do not; third, that having the players numbered would give away to scouts from other colleges the details of essential plays...
...dance fairly well and want to earn upwards to $25 a week during spare time, inquire at the office of the HARVARD CRIMSON. Write today to Arthur Murray, 290 Broadway, New York...