Word: instruction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greater portion, surely more than half, of 40 millions. It was suddenly in a position to outbid any other museum for the world's masterpieces. Never in life had Mr. Munsey evinced interest in the Metropolitan beyond a perfunctory $10-per-annum subscription such as most prominent Manhattanites instruct their secretaries to renew automatically. Few of the trustees knew him and none intimately. He did not collect works of art privately. Yet without requesting that his money be called "The Munsey Fund" or assigning ends to which it was to be applied, he went down as leader...
...arousing your interest, in stimulating your curiosity, in helping you while away a few dull hours in this dull existence of yours, in a word, if I have succeeded in amusing you I have fulfilled my mission as a good showman. My job is to amuse not to instruct. Nay, more. If I have succeeded in bringing laughter in your heart and strange wonder in your soul I have given you greater instruction than you could possibly get in your churches or your academies. For the secret of life is in its illusions and one good laugh is worth more...
...Paraclete," the chosen production of the Dramatic Club, is the exemplification of another of Evreinov's unusual ideas. He believes that the actor's mission is not merely to amuse and instruct the populace from the stage. He has a broader conception of the actor's duties and declares that the acting profession night well mingle with the common people and bring happiness and pleasure to them by supplying friendship to the friendless, and love to those without lovers...
Preliminary work for the purpose of rounding throwing arms into shape, and instruction in the fundamentals will continue for a day or two, followed by daily games between two picked squads. Coach Mitchell, who tutored last year's hurling staff, and is temporarily in charge pending the permanent appointment of Coach Mahan's successor, assisted by Claude Davidson, coach of the Freshman team, hopes through the fall practice to be better able to instruct and observe the candidates without outside games...
...three years, conducted himself so genially that his friends were many, so adroitly that he won a professor's daughter to wife. After some post-graduate work and some teaching at Beloit, Wis., he studied mathematics abroad, returning with his doctorate from the University of Gottingen to instruct at M. I. T., Yale and finally at his alma mater...