Word: y
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME spells Tokyo with a "y," and I should be glad if you will explain why you use this style...
...group of mothers in Scarsdale, N. Y. last week set out to do something about the radio programs to which their children listen. They had no new kind of program to suggest but they bitterly declared that present programs "shatter nerves, stimulate emotions of horror, and teach bad grammar." They put their case before that great pedagogical clearing house, Teachers College at Columbia University. They got the United Parents Association to put mental hygienists on the subject. They voted, and took votes among their children, on their preferences among radio-broadcasts aired between...
Resigned, Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell, warden for the past 13 years of St. Stephen's College (Annandale-on-Hudson, N. Y.), Episcopal offspring of Columbia University; because of budget reductions and a proposed change in educational policy. Beetle-browed and peppery, Dr. Bell had sponsored a tutorial system at St. Stephen's, plumped for academic atmosphere, thundered publicly at the "untrained cubs" in most U. S. colleges...
...inventors of the candle or the wheel. Not so the inventor of basketball. He is Dr. James A. Naismith, director of the department of physical education at Kansas University. At McGill University he was the best athlete in his class (1887). From McGill Theological Seminary he went to Springfield Y. M. C. A. College to teach. Amos Alonzo-Stagg went there the same year to coach football and Dr. Naismith played centre on Stagg's team. In 1891, he was assigned to design an indoor game for a gymnasium class. He knocked the bottoms out of two peach-baskets...
...Yale's track team: the eastern indoor intercollegiate championship: 32 points to 28 for N. Y. U.; in New York. N. Y. U., needing a second place in the mile relay to win the meet, failed when Sidney Shleffar, lead-off man, dropped his baton, lost 50 yd. going back to retrieve...