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...many schools fear the New Plan and cling to the Old Plan as a certain means of getting pupils into college without leaving too much to the discretion of the College Boards of Admission," writes S. K. Kerns, Headmaster of the Country Day School for Boys of Boston, Mr. Kerns article continues the series on preparatory school education sponsored by the CRIMSON. Mr. A. E. Brown, in an article which follows that of Mr. Kerns, gives his viewpoint of the situation, Mr. Brown is Headmaster of the Harrisburg Academy, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania...
Regarding this plan of entrance, Mr. Kerns further states. "You will note that Plan B is not making a substantial growth in popularity as a means of entrance to college. Too many schools fear the New Plan and cling to the Old Plan as a certain means of getting pupils into college without leaving too much to the discretion of the College Boards of Admission...
...much, took up too much room. Their collapsible canvas boats were always being punctured by rocks in the rapids of the Kuluseu, but came in handy when they reached the Xingu, tributary of the Amazon. Flies were their constant companions: borochudas, which leave a blood-blister; garapatas, which cling together in swarms; stingless bees, which crawled "up our nostrils, into our ears, down our necks"; fire ants, whose bites "feel exactly like flames rippling over one's body"; big black ants which hissed like snakes when you pinned them down with a twig. When they were working through rapids...
...Bukharin is a vine that must always cling somewhere, must be always upheld and maintained by someone sturdier than himself. . . . After Lenin's death, Bukharin became Stalin's medium. . . . I hear from friends that he is passing through a new crisis now, and that new fluids, unknown to me, are penetrating him." The "fluids" were diagnosed as those of a "Right Heresy" in Moscow last week by the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party. It appeared that Comrade Bukharin had dared to say that some of Dictator Stalin's policies are too radical much as Comrade Trotsky dared...
...Success" is the story of a prominent English politician, who, at middle age, finds himself shut in from the pleasures of the world by success. Suddenly he has a chance to recapture his first love, and his struggle to cling to romance, while success closes about him once more, forms the central interest of the play...