Word: schoolchild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When veteran Conductor Walter Damrosch once asked a schoolchild who Charles Wakefield Cadman was, the child answered: "He's a great American Indian." Prior to 1915 Cadman spent some time among the Osages and Omahas, recording their music, lecturing on it, deriving themes from it. Two decades ago he turned from such ventures to the writing of opera, produced Shanewis, first U. S. opera to survive two seasons in the repertory of the Metropolitan Opera House, and A Witch of Salem, given by the Chicago Civic Opera Company. Then he turned to orchestral pieces and chamber music. An indefatigable...
...last stand against Hitlerism, many German parents have been forbidding their children to join the Hitler Youths and German Maidens who are excused from school one day each week for "party activities." Last week such parents sighed despairingly as blunt Minister of Education Bernhard Rust decreed that every German schoolchild without exception must study one day each week and take examinations on the anti-Jewish, un-Christian and pro-Nazi propaganda works of Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, august Supervisor of the Intellectual and Spiritual Training of the Nazi Party...
Confront a 12-year-old schoolchild with this definition of a candle: A cylinder of combustible substance inclosing a wick to furnish light...
...knows better than Professor Edward Lee Thorndike that the schoolchild will close his dictionary in puzzlement, forget he ever wanted to know about candles. A quarter century ago Columbia's famed educational psychologist decided that something must be done for the millions & millions of youngsters between 10 and 15 who have to struggle with such monstrous definitions. That decision bore fruit last week when the Thorndike-Century Junior Dictionary came off Chicago presses...
...While almost every schoolchild in Pennsylvania knows much about Captain Miles Standish and Captain John Smith, not one in thousands knows anything about the able Swedish Governor who established the first permanent seat of Government in Pennsylvania and did it before William Penn was born." Thus writes C. Hale Sipe, lawyer-historian-lecturer of Butler, Pa. The able Swede was an adipose lieutenant-colonel named Johann Printz who arrived in New Sweden in 1642, built a state house which existed for 160 years in what is now Pennsylvania. Johann Printz is only one of many historical characters for whose recognition...