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...country has an English Department, but when Harvard officially recognized a state of war in 1776 by conferring an LL.D. on General Washington, it was proclaiming for all time its intellectual independence from the Mother Country. Since that time the University has conscientiously tried to develop native talent in every field, and it can now be justly regarded as a center of American culture...
...interested in the business end of a paper, the Business Board offers ample opportunity for developing talent in this direction. Work consists of contacting Cambridge, Boston, and even New York business men to secure advertising. By such contact with so many concerns a wide range of business training and insight is secured...
Peter Paul Loyanich, 10, was brought up to pianism by a San Franciscan who scraped a living as violinist for Hearst's radio station KYA, saw talent in his tot at two. Peter Paul learned to play on an old oaken pianola, has been huddled under the tutorial wing of Virtuoso José Iturbi, who has said of him: "He is extraordinary -Santa Maria...
...speech before the educational conference in New York brings to light a theory of education based on the evaluation of a student's ability along special lines. The means of testing this ability in the student who is not overly brilliant in one specific field, but who possesses definite talent in another, is by a combination of various methods of testing. This would involve a merger of such examinations as those conducted by the College Entrance Examination Board, but would not be limited to a specific subject. This general aspect of the examinations would permit the student who has definite...
Would-be thespians will have a chance to discover whether or not they possess any talent at the tryouts for the Beaver Country Day School fall play, which will be held today and tomorrow from 4 to 6 o'clock at the Big Tree Swimming Pool. Unfortunately the trials are limited to Freshman actors...