Word: approached
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavy season. Besides laboring at the Maurice Evans Hamlet and Henry IV Part I, she directed the current Family Portrait, plays Mary Magdalene in it. The most powerful new director in the U. S. theatre, Margaret Webster is bold, witty, imaginative. She does not approach Shakespeare on bended knee, but gives him a hearty slap on the back...
...Social Service and Library Committees, the drive will continue for two weeks, as a group of eight men will approach every man in the Houses. Working in collaboration with P. B. H. agents is an informal faculty committee, representing a number of departments and headed by J. K. Fairbank, instructor in History...
This distinct stressing of research is a unique approach to the problem of training men for government service, the primary educational end to which the School is dedicated. Since its student body is composed of highly-educated graduate students, there is little need for further formal instruction. They will benefit more from doing research on various problems and then discussing them with consultant experts in seminars. In this way the individual student gains much knowledge. Furthermore, by the publication of the results of its research, the School believes it will add to the general store of knowledge and further justify...
Undoubtedly this approach, worked out only after two years of conferences and discussion, will prove very significant. It may well be the dawn of a new era in training men for government position. But the more immediate result will be the graduates of the School, the social engineers of the future. The eyes of the nation are focused on these men, and it is their job to carry the torch, to bring the light. It is up to them to be the trained city-managers, the heads of government bureaus, the professors of political economy of tomorrow. Their...
...these extra-curricular musical groups are interested in making a greater contribution to music at Harvard they could do so by giving a few free, informal performances here during the year. The Yard Concerts are the nearest approach we have to a close relationship between extra-curricular music and the College as a whole, and there is no apparent reason why their principle could not be applied more freely...