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...Emperor ought to be hanged or at least jailed. But in Tokyo, he found himself recommending to his unsuspecting "victim" the right U.S. woman tutor (Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining) for the Crown Prince. And he also helped draft democratic reforms for Japanese education: popularly elected school boards, a simplified alphabet,wider public schooling...
...English girl of 21 with plenty of interests, including music and dancing of all types, the open-air-life, the theater, and reading. I am writing to Harvard first because H comes before Y in the alphabet. I shall have to try Yale if Harvard is no good...
...expected heavy volume of traffic through Hunt's doors will be spread more evenly by restricting the hours from 9 to 1 o'clock to those men whose names begin with the letters A through N. Less fortunate souls, mired further down in the alphabet, will be forced to curb their enthusiasm until the afternoon hours of 2 till 5 o'clock...
...returning to Cambridge from the short recess following final exams, all those whose surnames fall between A and B will have to get up before lunch to make the 8:30 to 12 o'clock deadline. The remainder of the alphabet will register from 1 to 4 o'clock. Late arrivals will have to squeeze into Mers Hall between 4 and 5 o'clock...
Frank Laubach. He first used it in the Philippines, where he was a missionary of the Congregational Christian Churches; Dr. Laubach performed what could well be described as a miracle in giving the Moros an alphabet and teaching them to read & write. There, the each-one-teach-one technique was worked out and used with astounding success...