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...shall esteem it an honor to take part in the funeral procession, and shall be obliged if you will assign a position in the procession for my car, which will be occupied by Mrs. Wilson and myself and I hope by my friend, Admiral Grayson. It will be with feelings of the utmost solemnity and reverence that I will attend. I regret to say my lameness makes it impracticable for me to attend the exercises in the Capitol...
...York Central, it has been learned that that road contemplates establishing still another trunk line route between the two cities. Recent hearings of the Interstate Commerce Commission have been devoted to the old question of railroad consolidation. The tentative plan of the Commission had been to assign the Central Railroad of New Jersey and the Philadelphia & Reading to the B. & O. system. President Smith of the New York Central, however, made a plea for the acquisition of these lines by his road, pointing out the greater service which could be rendered the Port of New York thereby. If this arrangement...
...sent many of them to serve on the destroyers that were based on Queens town, three on each vessel, and gave instructions that it was up to the captains of the destroyers to train them and assign them to such duties as in their opinion they might be able to carry out satisfactorily. To my great surprise, I found that, after three or four months' intensive training in actual service at sea, these experienced destroyer commanders considered these youngsters, so efficient that in many cases they entrusted them with the handling of the destroyers during their four hours' watch...
...always, when something new puts in an appearance, the "logarithmic table" of comparative fame in the last issue of "Vanity Fair" arouses the wonder why no one had ever thought of such a table before. Eight well-known critics of the arts were asked to assign to each of a list of two hundred famous men values from plus 25 to minus 25, or 0 when they could give no opinion. The average for each entry was then computed and tabulated. So now the art of individual appreciation of literature has succumbed to the onslaught of statistical analysis and scientific...
...middle or even a little below the middle intelligence. In an average class of 75 men, the brightest scholars will do in thirty minutes, a lesson upon which the slowest students will labor for there hours. That is a ratio of one to six. The instructor must assign lessons suited for a two-hour...