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Between the college and the preparatory school, modern educational methods have driven a wedge that has disrupted the continuity of the normal intellectual development of the student. The varying specific needs of individual secondary schools and colleges have necessitated the establishment of standardized means of judging entrants. Unfortunately this blanket characterization is neither sufficiently elastic or authentic to be considered a reliable criterion. The result of this practice has been that the preparatory school has degenerated into a few years of intense cramming for College Entrance Board Examinations while the college is left to all in the deficiencies that have...
...usual "March Blizzard" tucked south-east England under a twelve-inch snow blanket last week, stopped air services to the Continent, forced the Admiralty to keep coastal guns firing at Dover, because above the screech of the gale ordinary fog signals could not be heard...
Massachusetts Thread Mills, Inc., a $7.50 blanket and a share of stock supposedly worth...
...addition to this, there is little coordination between the preparatory school and college in preparing men to meet specific and individual requirements. The College Board examinations have become a mere mechanical form which does nothing more than stamp a candidate with a blanket approval with little significance to any individual college...
There is something sublimely absurd in this picture of Congress, having slumbered for ten years in blissful and complacent ignorance awakening to find the house in flames. One feels like shouting in impish glee, "Jump, jump, we've got a blanket." But of course it is too late and the venerable figure must struggle through the flames, in the extreme likelihood of having his whiskers singed to the cheek...