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...raise the academic standards of the college is a wise and necessary procedure; but the lifting pressure should be exerted at the bottom-during the first year-not at the topic. Then too, to use George Ade, "in uplifting, get underneath:" The manner in which the Divisional examinations are made out, and the alrenuousness with which they are marked are, after all, only the most external of reforms. What needs changing is not the student's scholarship, but his way of looking at scholarship. And that change can be brought about only by the lectures and adhereats of scholarship themselves...
Among the men that developed under Mr. Lawson's tutelage were Eugene Field, George Ade, John T. McCutcheon, Ray Stannard Baker, Peter B. Kyne, Frank B. Noyes...
...Jewish Palestine Exploration Society, under Dr. Slousch, excavated the so-called tombs of Absalom and Jehoshaphat, dated about the 4th Century B. C., in the ancient cemeteries east of Jerusalem. Orthodox Jewish fanatics opposed the work until a wall collapsed exposing the façade of the tomb of Jehoshaphat...
Indiana "Hoosiers" known to every proverbial schoolboy include Authors Tarkington, Nicholson, Ade; Politicians Marshall, Beveridge, Ralston, New, Hays, Watson. But when the banker thinks of Indiana he thinks of Evans Woollen, a banker whose fortune is moderate, whose perspicacity unsurpassed. Friend of authors and confidant of politicians, Mr. Woollen is an expert in Midland* diagnosis...
...planned that the finished Cathedral will have in the front a rose window above which will run a gallery of niches, to contain statues, extending entirely across the façade after the manner of the Gallery of Kings in Rheims Cathedral...