Word: program
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flood relief having at last terminated, it looked as though legislation might soon ensue (see p. 9). President Coolidge sent for Secretaries Mellon, Hoover and Davis (of War); for Major General Jadwin, Chief of Engineers; for Representative William E. Hull of Illinois, outspoken advocate of a 100% Federal program. After much conferring, the President let it be known that he might let up a bit on his insistence that the flood-region States pay 20% of the cost of their protection...
Seriously though, the experiment yesterday is highly to be commended. History to be really understood must almost be experienced. Time and dignity perhaps will not allow the full program outlined above, but still there is positive good to be derived from such expositions on a small scale. And even where this is not possible, many lectures could be greatly improved by laying greater stress on the creation of "atmosphere...
...Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock, 120 members of the club will sing the following program at the Young People's Concert in Symphony Hall: Christmas Song Holst Le Miracle de Saint Nicholas French Folk Song Les Anges dans nos Campagnes French Folk Song Two Choruses from "Requiem" Faure Agnus Dei In Paradisum Cantate Domino Hasler O Sacrum Convivium Viadana Wassail Song English Folk Song Gently Johnny English Folk Song The Nightingale Weelkes The Campbells are Coming Scottish Folk Song La-Bas, Sur ces Montagnes French Canadian Folk Song Choruses from "The Yeomen of the Guard" Sullivan
...What is much more important," Mr. Smith said, "is that if America carries through the present naval program China, will take up the cry, and once the ball has been started rolling, France and Italy will keep it rolling...
...obvious and fully justifiable criticism of such a program is that it is superficial. Psychologists can prove to their own satisfaction that a man's intelligence quota, his ability to deal with facts and situations is constant throughout life. With this in view, to ground him in facts, to give him tools with which to work, would seem the logical means of education. True, an intelligent tutor or stimulating lecturer can often awaken the dormant perceptive and critical faculties. But to let them play unconfined over impossibly wide fields of knowledge for several years, without any strict disciplining...