Word: getting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were being taken only by those with a good foundation in the Fine Arts. But the course is filled to overflowing every year with an ever increasing enrolment, while Fine Arts instructors themselves sit back and admit that the situation sadly needs remedying. A majority of students fail to get any real artistic appreciation out of their frenzied memorizing of slides, it is generally conceded and yet it is the assumption when they voluntarily enter the course that they earnestly desire to assimilate some knowledge of a subject which is likely to play so important a part in their leisure...
...Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime (1925-28) Secretary of State; an honorary D.C.L. (Doctor of Civil Law) ; at Oxford University. Awarded. To Dr. Hugo Eckener, Commander of the Graf Zeppelin; the Ntional Geographic Society's gold medal. He said he would travel to the U. S. in March to get it. Elected. Alfred Emanuel Smith, onetime (1928) Democratic Candidate for President; to be Board Chairman of County Trust Co. (Manhattan), a post created following the suicide of his longtime friend James J. Riordan (TIME, Nov. 18) Elected. Vice President George Willard Smith of New England Mutual Life Insurance...
...curriculum was set up with two courses, a stiff educational one to prepare "career girls" for the Bryn Mawr examinations, a less strenuous one in letters and the arts for misses planning to take their places in Society. But each & every girl must pass an examination to get into the school. And each & every one is taught that character, competence, self-reliance come before Career or Society...
...children who read about the three funny little pigs are often those who grow up to be readers of G. A. Henty and Zane Grey." Only a cretin, she implied, could get literary satisfaction out of The Little Red Hen or the senseless animism of Peter Rabbit. She offered as an example of what would be more suitable, a story about a child named Peter who "ate 'n ate 'n ate spinach and loved and loved to drink his milk every day until he was strong enough to lift his little horse Trott Trott high over his head...
...responsible for its late appearance. The aim of this type of tutoring is not identical with that of the coaching-schools that have mushroomed up around the Square. The art of studying is not to be learned the night before an examination; unless a man is willing to get, this sort of instruction earlier than the last minute, he must be content with professional cramming instead of guidance from students who have recently met and coped with his problems...