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...which to make a living". Developing on this, he said that, though it sounded innocuous, it was full of implications of highest importance. "Success of secondary education should be measured in youth made better able and better disposed to contribute to the betterment of the state. Judged by this criterion, our secondary schools are a lamentable failure...
...although admitting it is not in complete possession of the facts, as candidly declares the Coast Guard is incapable of wrong-doing while engaged in the pursuitence duty. Assistant Secretary Low man yesterday was more astute or perhaps more bewildered, so far as silence may be taken as a criterion. It is merely a matter of choice...
This seems to be substantially what happened in the Georgia Tech game two weeks ago. Two weeks' of practice, however, can do a lot towards giving finesse in an offense of this sort, and if the Georgia game of last Saturday can be taken as any criterion, it seems to have made a good start. The conquerors of Yale were at a loss to check the powerful drives of the men from the land of oranges where they had a comparatively easy time with Albie Booth, the Elis' "alert atom...
...reason for this paranoiac performance: Sophomore Clark was being initiated into Hasty Pudding Club, smart organization of trenchermen, toss-pots and thespians, which each year produces a musical comedy and each year, like almost every Harvard society, holds initiations in which absurdity, and failing that, bawdiness, is the criterion of success. The day after Sophomore Clark's Chinaman-mauling and Jew-baiting, the Harvard Crimson, undergraduate daily, editorialized: ". . . Public drunkenness which results in conduct objectionable to non-participants has grown to be looked upon in modern societies as a violation of taste and public decency. There is obviously heavy...
...meant adding eight pages to the paper, nearly doubling its size. It meant 60 additional correspondents, one at least in each State capital, several more in "subcapitals" like New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Seattle. The State news was to be arranged by subjects, not by States, the criterion of significance being social rather than geographical...