Word: learning
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Curtis Wright Summer Camp at Portland, Maine, is backed by the oldest flying organization in the world. The camp offers college men an opportunity to learn to fly during the summer...
...team next year and have completed a contract for a second team game with Yale, the first official one, indicates the growing popularity of soccer at Harvard. I urge all who consider playing next fall to report for spring practice on Monday, when an excellent opportunity for beginners to learn the fundamentals of the game will be provided...
...fall. "All candidates for next fall's team should attend this meeting," said Carr, "regardless of whether or not they intend to report this spring. Freshmen and inexperienced men are especially urged to report, as the drilling in kicking, dribbling, and passing will give them an excellent opportunity to learn the fundamentals of the game. All will play in the informal games with M. I. T. and a number of outside amateur organizations...
...Glass of Water. About one hundred years ago Parisian society waxed ecstatic over the plays of a romanticist, Augustin Eugene Scribe, whose name is still glamorous to many drama students. Anyone who wishes to learn what ridiculous and hollow charades enthralled Paris of the '305 and '405 may now see the American Laboratory Theatre perform a play of Scribe's in which Queen Anne of England, the Duchess of Marlborough and a simple heroine named Abigail Churchill vie with each other for the favors of a Captain of the Guards. The entanglements are also political. Attired...
William Boyce Thompson, copper millionaire and flora expert, was goodhumoredly sunning himself last week aboard his yacht off Miami. Less active than he used to be, he was pleased to learn that the balmy weather around Yonkers, N. Y., was enabling Director William Crocker of the Boyce Thompson Institute for plant research to start spending $3,000,000 which Col. Thompson gave him last year for a 400-acre arboretum adjoining the institute...