Word: babeling
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From certain Seniors struggling with Divisionals comes a cry against the injustice caused by differences in the Departmental rules regulating exemption from final examinations of courses in their field of concentration. These rules are as varied as the tongues of the Tower of Babel, for each Division makes them as it sees fit. In the Division of Modern Languages only those who pass the Divisional Examination "with credit" are exempt. Biology grants freedom from examination to all Seniors who have, at April Hours, an honor record in the courses in question. The Division of History, Government, and Economics relieves candidates...
...latest figures on anthracite production in Pennsylvania - and pause to examine the fascinating his tory of lynching in the U. S.? Would the farmer in Nebraska no longer be able to find at a glance the height of the Empire State Building, the height of the Tower of Babel, the death rate from cirrhosis of the liver by states since 1911? Would all researchers be deprived of that omniscient i.ooo-page volume (most-called-for reference book in the Library of Congress) with its facts large & small - from an analysis of the latest U. S. census to the manner...
...babel that has been raised in altercation upon the problem of secondary schol education a lawyer's voice is added. Victor Morawetz, writing in the Atlantic Monthly, has stated that the primary purposes of a preparatory school are the development of the body, the establishment of a firm character, the training of the mind. It is essential, in his opinion, that every school graduate should write and speak clear, forceful English. Mr. Morawetz goes on to attack the present methods of teaching history and literature as mere systems of amassing factual knowledge. The blame for this he conventionally lays upon...
...thoughtful and carefully composed essay of Mr. Melish the reader comes upon E. L. Belisle's "Dialogues of the Half Dead"--the order is rather reversed since Mr. Belisle's sketch occupies the opening pages of the issues. Here is something in quite a different vein--a sort of Babel of philosophers, poets, and literary figures of all ages and kinds. The scene is half-way up Olympus; the characters range from Aristotle, Socrates, Aristophanes, through Rabelais, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, to Freud, Joyce, Lawrence, Babbitt and many others. Mr. Belisle's effort is the kind of thing one starts...
...went to college. He works hard, is good at archery, enjoys poker. Summers he spends at Kennebunkport, Me., with his great & good friend Tarking ton. He "denies bitterly" that either he or his only daughter Kingsley are to be found in the pages of Father Means Well. Other books: Babel, The East Wind...