Word: background
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shubert "Carry On" with Jack Donabue and Lily Damita. Thoroughly successful musical comedy with a military background...
...Haven, Conn., Nov. 19--Undergraduates of three of America's oldest and most famous universities are suspected in the theft during the Yale-Princeton game of the last remaining section of Yale's traditional fence, which for ever fifty years has served as a background for the official pictures of undergraduate Eli notables...
...professional school the college remains, the more chance there is to avoid this rut and to exert a wholesome unrestricting influence on the students to whom they award degrees. No matter what professional field the college man may enter, the subjects studied outside of this field present a background upon which his specialized knowledge will have to work. Moreover, work not in a specified field offers a chance for contacts outside the particular professional pale which are daily becoming more difficult for the super-specializing American. In the final analysis, college really represents an a vocational rather than a vocational...
...final test rather than on an actual foundation in the fundamentals of English. The most plausible solution that presents itself seems to be in offering an examination in the more basic aspects of the subject, thus demanding that the preparatory schools focus their attention on providing a substantial background; and leaving to the college the problem of providing the more advanced work. As it is at present, the preparation for the college entrance tests provides too many men with a superficial knowledge of the subject without affording the elementary tools with which to handle their information...
...college newspaper teaches journalism or the Dramatic Club acting that makes them valuable; it is the fact that they afford some little contact with the problems of doing things in general. And on the other hand the more contemplative training of the class room can only furnish a general background of knowledge the immediate and specific application of which is not only undesirable but impossible...