Word: snappings
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...speech delivered before the members of the Massachusetts Schoolmasters' Club at its annual meeting in the Hotel Bellevue Saturday afternoon, President Lowell criticised some of the modern trends of education, concentrating his attack upon the "snap" courses that exist at Harvard...
There really isn't anything particularly astonishing in the news that a prominent university president decries snap courses, especially if that man be President Lowell. But the metropolitan newspapers thought the information sufficiently alarming to warrant long stories and topcolumn head lines. There is a significance in his words, however, which though lacking in immediate appeal reflects a fundamental American educational problem. It is the fact that President Lowell was talking to school masters and giving them a little of the cool, hard headed advice which has begun to have its effect in institutions of higher learning...
...contest has already received enough publicity so that Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer are sending their news cameramen to snap the listeners in action. There was also a possibility late last night that Fox Movie-tone would be on hand to record on a synchronized score the voices of the men and the music, as the phonographs grind...
...very determined little Virginian will board the White Star liner Calgaric bound for the Mediterranean, for the Holy Land. He will be dressed in the black cloth of the clergy. Undoubtedly newsphotographers will snap his picture, reporters take down his parting words. In one of his suitcases will be a parchment scroll hailing him as the most significant U. S. contributor to religious progress for 1928. He is Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South...
...sits on the porch steps and Vincent Jones, taxi-driving son of the Second Floor Joneses, slides over beside her. '' . . . Say, sweetie, I'll give you two bucks if you'll let me snap your garter." He is overheard by Sammy Kaplan, who loves Rose. Kaplan makes a feeble attempt to attack Jones, but Vincent is far too strong, easily spins Sammy to the ground. Mrs. Jones appears. "Now Vincent, you mustn't do that...