Word: raring
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Reared under a system that rancored, the author still recognizes that great teachers are always free from the trammels of the traditional or unproductive methods. His plea is for a system that will do its work well through the incorporation of scientific principles, rather than by dependency on the rare teacher of "Humanitas." He adds to that plea, the tried and proved remedies for the specific sores in the sleeping body of learning. There is no sounder precept of progress than this...
...Little combines the rare ability to drive straight home to the heart of the situation with a clarity of vision and a spiritual vividness that is profoundly invigorating. He sends his barbs, his shafts and his thunderbolts in well ordered legions. His keenness is surpassed only by his Utopia. He applies the spur so much needed in arousing an earnest interest in education, the most permanent social contribution of the age. There is no individual, no member of society who can afford to overlook this living philosophy. The leaders of the coming generation, especially, should consider themselves ignorant unless they...
...most communities that bugaboo of mothers, Measles, follows a nicely defined curve. One year the disease will be prevalent, the following year rare. In one pair of years in Manhattan the ratio was 20:1. Last year was the low point of the curve; this year is a measles year. Manhattan's public health officials are getting into action, preparing to combat the malady...
...record of Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks which, he pointed out, was a nonstop flight with a heavy fuel load. The Lindberghs held to levels between 14,000 and 15,500 feet. Purpose: To test the theory that airplane speed and efficiency are to be sought above storm areas, in rare atmosphere...
When, last fall, the Botanical Gardens withered in a state of financial delinquency, a problem arose which apparently called for all the rare tact and ingenuity which the combined forces of sundry garden clubs and a Harvard administration could muster to the foreground. The situation was attacked will such a display of apprehension and diffuse polemics that it assumed all the seriousness of a three act mystery play to undergraduates uninitiated in the science and verbiage of horticulture...