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...backstroke the team is well fortified with an intercollegiate champion, Captain Edward E. Stowell '34, and Charles N. Breed, Jr. '36, Freshman captain last year. Coming as experienced hands, too, are Anderson C. Dearing, Jr. '34, in breast-stroke; Charles L. Jack '35, best man last year in the "440"; Edward C. Devereux, Jr. '34, in the "220"; and Howard S. Bowen '35, in diving. In this last field there is some excellent Sophomore material...
...including the general expense of proper ventilation. Careful experimentation, for instance, is now being made on the behavior of rats and mice when exposed to unusual conditions, such as being placed on a sloping surface. Inheritance in animals is another subject of experiment now. A pure breed of rats has been bred generation after generation by mating brother with sister; but for the most accurate results, animals must be kept in good health and subjected to uniform temperature and diet, which requires constant care and attention. Instruments which will allow for the variation of living organisms when under observation...
...Chicago Association of Commerce: "The speed of the world has increased so fast that a lot of people can't keep up. Their training and vision are still those of the horse age. Now the Government is send ing fine stallions out to the western plains to breed horses for the cavalry. You might as well go to war in a horse and buggy. This is a machine age, and war hereafter will be waged by technical men. We are spending a quarter of a billion dollars for warships which will be obsolete in ten years. No class...
...newspapers are not sensations, in that they do not deal in the unexpected. All is anteriorly familiar to the alert for our managing editors never print really important news until someone has shown them that it is important and our minds are already prepared for the impact. The American breed of journalism is the tamest in the world, for it never carries on the exciting warfare of principle, it is never inflamed by the ardor of a great cause. Mr. G. K. Chesterton points out that large playing blocks are devised not to startle children, but to put them...
Haverford detects an improvement in its breed by the fact that for the past four years Haverford has beaten 131 competitors in the annual Intercollegiate Intelligence Tests of the American Council on Education. Last week Dr. Comfort delivered in Haverford's tent an earnest, soothing address of the sort without which no academic convocation is complete. Calling Haverford's new plan not a new goal but a new technique, he said U. S. education needs no revamping: "What the country needs is ... a moral quickening ... a stiffer backbone...