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...Broun as Schoolman's Champion-Gems and the Desert Air Mr. Heywood Broun of Harvard and The New York World has made a discovery in the field of education. More than that, he has devoted a good half-perhaps the good half-of his sprightly Column to its exposition. But unfortunately there is little comfort for the publishers of educational news in this happy event, for Mr. Broun's discovery is the fact that there is no such news. He has read the newspapers, including the sporting pages, assiduously and he knows "not a thing about the character...
That, says Mr. Broun, is quite too bad. School affairs are not frivolous. It is as important, he implies, to train the young idea in the first place as to shoot it later. And there ought to be more noise about the whole business. He recalls somebody's visit to Copenhagen and his unidentified surprise at seeing a parade of school children behind a brass band and surrounded by a shouting populace, and all to celebrate the graduation of a high school class. It does not appear, however, that Mr. Broun's in- formant understood Danish...
...gather that Mr. Broun chiefly complains of the lack of any publicity as to the educators themselves. He has no respect for curricula, but he admires teaching personality. He once knew a teacher himself. " And since the personality of the various men in the teaching force of the city is in the long run rather more important than the personality of the Mayor, the Comptroller or any of the Aldermen, we wonder just what philosophy of news has conferred anonymity upon them quite so completely...
...Dramatic Club in making this trip has occasioned much interest in New York dramatic circles, and many prominent men connected with theatrical work have given it their cordial approval. Among these are Mr. Winthrop Ames '95, Mr. Lewis Beach '13, Mr. R. C. Benchley '12, Mr. Heywood Broun, Mr. Owen Davis, Mr. R. E. Jones '10, Mr. Kenneth Macgowan '11, Mr. Percy MacKaye '97. Mr. Eugene O'Neill, Mr. Hubert Osborne, Mr. H. T. Parker, Mr. Edward Sheldon '07, Mr. Lee Simonson '09, and Mr. Maurice Wertheim...
...Heywood Broun: ". . . . emotionally shortweight...