Word: playground
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been a constant eyesore in the midst of the river front, will now be remedied. Under the present conditions, the University has acted wisely in taking possession of this property when the occasion for getting it reasonably presented itself. The land next to Dunster will probably always remain a playground. While the purchase appears on the surface uneconomical, in reality it is sane move in the consolidation of Harvard ownership of all the land along the focal point of house locations...
...families at an average of $11 per room per month. Designed by Architect Clarence S. Stein, who built a famed model colony at Radburn, N. J., the Hillside community's buildings occupy only 34% of their 697,000 sq. ft. site. There is a 2½-acre playground. Dead-end streets, footpaths and an underpass to the school across an arterial highway from the development safeguard children. Most of the buildings will be four-story walk-ups. Some will be six stories high, have self-operated elevators...
...inherit. Great men have been among us. Let the people in Lawrence Hall pursue their experiments if they will, but why--while there are still a few distinguished names on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences--give the title of educators to a group of statisticians, organizers, and playground directors? H. T. Levin...
...ball park. He seldom missed a game. For several months of every year he went to Catalina Island, 12 mi. off the coast of California, which he had bought in 1919 for $2,000,000, and of which he had made a profitable business enterprise as well as a playground for himself and family. He owned the Biltmore Hotel at Phoenix in which he died, was a director of some 40 corporations (although he seldom attended meetings), was associated in many a business with his great & good friends Adman Lasker, Charles Alexander McCulloch, John Daniel Hertz. He believed religiously...
...editors, Richard S. Childs, should, if they retain any powers of self-criticism, fill them with shame. Mr. Childs has drawn for them a picture of Yale as he sees it, the place where gentlemen are manufactured and scholars are laughed at, a shallow, self-seeking, trivial, insincere playground for young bond salesmen to make contacts in before they take up the serious business of life. This may or may not be a just picture. But that a thoughtful young man, as Mr. Childs reveals himself to be, one who is already well on the way to education...