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...will be able to grasp the general idea. The purpose of this series is to give the school children a clear idea not only of the various racial types of man, but also of their distribution and possible migrations in the past. It is designed also to destroy the archaic racial classification on the basis of color still extant in most school geography books...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILMS WILL ASSIST STUDY OF SCIENCE | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...them showed a voice of any great dimensions, but each was vocally adequate and faithful to the tiniest dramatic detail. There were new sets by Robert Edmond Jones, thrilling in color and design, and a new English text by Robert A. Simon, gratefully free from the stilted archaic talk of the old librettos. Greatest tribute to Mr. Rosing was the ensemble, each member of which played like a trained actor as engrossed in being a soldier, or part of a street mob as Natalie Hall was in being Marguerita. Washington clapped the principals, who were really not principals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: American Opera | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

...Athenian Sculpture of the Later Archaic Period," Professor Chase, Fogg Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/16/1927 | See Source »

...aviation progress lest the fleets of the future should be exclusively fleets of the air. During last month's Army-Navy war game off the coast of New England (TIME, May 30), Mr Mitchell sniffed at the folly of continuing to base military strategy on the operations of "archaic" warships, but his observations were not widely published. Last week, however, the failure of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis to function properly when the aviator attempted to fly in it from Washington to Manhattan, prompted Mr. Mitchell to further criticisms. After maintaining that the Spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Again, Mitchell | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

...held directly responsible for summer tutorial reading is comparatively small. The cases in which the reading is optional are, on the other hand, very large. Few Libraries are as accessible and as adequate as Widener Library; consequently the books assigned are in the majority of cases not quite so archaic as manuscripts or so involved as law briefs. It is not overstating the case to say that the reading periods as instituted next year-will have a very definite reaction on the work done in summer vacations. At present the average man feels that reading done independently and without coercion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BOOKWORM TURNS | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

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