Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days before last week's performance the prima donna from Jellico, Tenn. kept to her suite in the Hotel Sherry-Netherland, refusing to speak lest she tire her voice. On the stage she exhibited more grace and confidence than she did at her debut in 1928. Otherwise her progress was unnoticeable. Her voice, at best, is naturally ingratiating. But it is still technically insecure, often feeble and rasping when she strives for top notes, empty and meaningless when she tries to sing...
FEDERAL FUNDS for the completion of 465 campus building projects have been allotted by the Works Progress Administration after approval by President Roosevelt and assistant WPA administrator Aubrey Williams. The federal government is providing $6,120,414 for these projects, while the institutions are providing $1,343,505. Exactly 14,935 workers (some of whom are students) are being given employment on these projects, which will provide 68,778 man years of labor when completed. Mr. Williams is also administrator of the National Youth Administration which is giving 118,889 under-graduates employment as $15 per month...
Harvard, then, has the standard of educational independence, a standard which American universities must maintain if the cause of education throughout the world is to continue its objective and unprejudiced progress. As President Dodds remarked, America especially faces the need today for "educated personalities" for the man who will not fear to take a determined stand upon a conclusion which he has reached through his own intelligence, not through an education which predetermines how and what he shall think, as is the case in Germany today. --The Daily Pennsylvanian
...Director Holger Cahill of the Works Progress Administration announced last week that 4,300 muralists, portrait painters, print makers, sculptors, etc. are now at work under his direction on 327 projects that will cost the Government $3,000,000. The Government has set up free art schools in New York City, Nashville, Raleigh, Oklahoma City, Orlando, Gainesville and Dade City, Fla., Columbus, Grand Rapids, Elizabeth and Newark, N. J., has opened art galleries in New York, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Florida, Virginia...
Last August, Works Progress Administration put Mrs. Hallie Flanagan of the Vassar Experimental Theatre in charge of its new Federal Theatre Project, whose aim was to employ idle stage folk "in the profession for which they have been trained." Since then FTP has made 9,000 jobs, put on circuses, marionette shows, vaudeville programs, revivals of the classics at high schools, playgrounds, Y. M. C. A.'s from Springfield, Mass, to San Diego, Calif. In show business only seven months, the U. S. Government last week reached the goal of all theatrical enterprises: Broadway...