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...contrary I saw 400,000,000 people floundering around, most of them absolutely illiterate and nobody doing anything to speak of to teach them to read and write. Two or three mercenary revolutions were in full swing and everybody seemed to be taking a fatalistic view of the chaotic situation. The few educated Chinese I talked with complained bitterly of what was going on, but when they were asked why they themselves did not plunge in and do their bit to bring China out of it they shrugged and asked, in reply, what could...
...almost two full weeks this year so that tutors could eliminate work with their tutees on the fields covered by these examinations and start the year on more important material. The wisdom of such an attitude, if it is true, is surely to be questioned in view of the chaotic conditions under which students are forced to take the examinations this year. The whole condition at present is surely far from ideal. Some arrangement of these examinations in the Junior year might eliminate many of the glaring deficiencies in the present system...
...Journalized history ?the notion that whatever is news is history?is, in the U. S., only as old as the Sullivan-Beer school. Such a news-history of Chicago, a city with a blood-red reputation hitched to a star, is a book bound to pall in its chaotic, undigested collection of facts en masse; yet it is big with significance for readers who like to generalize. Author Smith's own generalizations include the following...
...Wabash plan did not conflict with Pennsylvania, which has a 49% stock interest in the Wabash line. By further scrambling an already chaotic jumble of claims and counterclaims, it made more difficult any disturbance of the present situation?a situation with which Pennsylvania Railroad, potent and powerful, seems not ill pleased...
...charge of Mr. Bingham that "polo is the most miserably managed sport in the University" has, however, been literally substantiated during the past few months. One University manager resigned, leaving the schedule in a chaotic state, and the Harvard Polo Association, a graduate body of Boston businessmen, has more than once interfered with the policy of the H. A. A. by arbitrarily shifting the dates of contests...