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Like all dissertations upon secondary education, the article contains many arguments that are valid. But the author is writing too frequently from the bias of his profession. He hopes to inculcate a thorough knowledge of English Grammar in a boy which in itself is a laudable ideal, at the expense of foreign languages. In defense of this tenet the lawyer cites the elementary language courses at all universities which are more repetitions of a secondary preparation. The time spent on these subjects would be better applied to the Mother tongue in view of the collegiate regurgitation. What Mr. Morawetz...
Died. William L. McLean, 79, onetime Pittsburgh newsboy, publisher since 1895 of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin; of old age; in Germantown, Pa. Lest it bias his editorial views he would have no business interest but his paper. He saved big headlines for big news, shunned premiums as circulation boosters, was first to distribute newspapers by automobile...
...lunch. When it came back from lunch it began to hear the case against Magistrate Jesse Silbermann, also impugned by the Seabury in- vestigation, also on the Women's Court bench. Mr. Seabury contended that Magistrate Silbermann was in cahoots with shysters, had been guilty of "bias, prejudice and conspiracy to defeat justice...
...white man myself and some of my best friends are Negroes. Ordinarily I pay little attention to evidences of ignorant race prejudice, but when a magazine which boasts of accuracy and lack of bias publishes a statement like the above, I am surprised and shocked...
...they finally came home into last night thoroughly disgruntled. And the Vagabond is herein chronicling his side of the story for his own protection and, needs must add, watch out what Dr. Hu Flung Huey will do to those boat races! And that, too is not the mere bias of a literary quarrel as if may seem...