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During the early part of next month the Bond Astronomical Club, a group of professional and amateur astronomers of Cambridge and vicinity, will hold the first of its monthly meetings at the Observatory. The American Association of Variable Star Observers will hold an all-day session at the Observatory for its seventeenth annual meeting, which will be followed by a dinner in the Hotel Bellevue, Boston...
Memorable was the defense of the penny as a buying unit by Emile C. Schurmacher, managing editor of The Candy Gazette. Editor Schurmacher wrote to the New York Times: "There has been a steady increase in the sale of penny candy (red hots, all-day suckers, 'lickerish' shoe laces). . . . If there is anybody who is offsetting the younger generation's contempt for the penny as a medium of exchange, it is the penny candy manufacturer...
...reformed German schools tend to awaken a new feeling of brotherhood, and to overcome the differences of feeling between the aristocrats and the working boys. One innovation for creating a greater mutual understanding among all the students is a monthly all-day hike, which brings the teacher and his pupils very close together. But above all the new gymnasium teaches its students to recognize the meaning of a true culture of the mind...
...placed entirely upon his own resources. If he makes an error, it will go hard with him, since he is not permitted to depart from his sketch solution during the rest of the time alotted him for preparation of the final drawings. This discipline is heightened by the all-day sketch problem--a program that must be solved and drawn in final form in 12 hours. It is sketchy in form and requires rapidity of conception and study. Then, too, is the week-end sketch--really an enlarged all-day sketch--a very fatiguing and difficult type of test...
...all-day's work to recapture them, and so ended the only disorder attendant upon the first week and week-end of the anthracite suspension...