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...other important differences in the two systems of education, he pointed out, are accessibility and control Edu cation is practically within the reach of every boy and girl in America, whereas the number of children in Europe who may receive an education is necessarily restricted. High schools in America are controlled by the locality in which they are, but in most European countries, either the Federal or State Government have direct control of the schools
...California corporation, not to be confused with Federal Telegraph Co., a Delaware corporation, which Radio Corporation of America owns. The Delaware Federal Telegraph has valuable communi- cation rights in China. †Western Union has 22,000 main offices, Postal Telegraph 3,000 main offices...
...They must think I'm a bird. It's my feet, my mouth, and my eradi- cation they want. Some of them call me a dumbbell. They will soon find out how dumb...
...London, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Burden Sanderson Haldane, mother of onetime (1912-15) Lord High Chancellor Haldane of Britain, became 100 years old, published memoirs in The Spectator. She told of her early edu cation, how she was taught to read when 3, how "the multiplication table and French verbs were repeated whilst holding a backboard* and with our feet in the stocks,* which were made by the joiner. . . . When just 8 or 10 years of age, I read through Voltaire's history of Louis XIV and Peter the Great, and looked up all the French words I did not know...
Chicago University had been voted first in Botany, Geography, Geology, Mathematics, Physics, Sociology: second place in Astronomy, Educa- tion, French, Government, Spanish. Columbia University had won Edu- cation, Psychology, Zoology; second place in Botany, Economics, English, Philosophy, Sociology; tied for second with Yale in Geology...