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...cull the following from your witty and disinterested account of the Irish game of hurling (TIME, Sept...
...other "culls" wish to subscribe with Cull Mittlefehldt to deport Henry J. Weeks? Would Henry J. Weeks accept a ticket?-ED. Ex-Buck Sirs: If the ex-Y-Tycoons; real, semi and pseudo, say they gave away 26 million francs and won the war, that's that. All you ex-bucks who believe it, stand on your head. I neither recollect nor have I ever heard of any buck who ever received, gratis, anything from the Y except - -. He got lots of that. In fact he has heard this brand of F. S. Edmonds and F. H. Jamison overseas...
...guerilla, General Augusto Calderon Sandino (TIME, Aug. 1). The unique jungle journalist is Carleton Beals, now special correspondent in Nicaragua for The Nation, liberal, trenchant, enterprising Manhattan weekly review. Although Correspondent Beals was both prolix and tediously descriptive of scenery in his early despatches, it is now possible to cull one excellent purple passage and then get down to the solid news of the first interview obtained by any U. S. journalist from General Sandino. Mr. Beals, author, lecturer, and onetime schoolmaster at Mexico City, writes...
...practical world, the problems of rental culture and physical equipment impinge on one another to an embarassing degree. Even granting the ability of colleges to train men in the mass, they lack the necessary equipment. In consequence, universities have had to cull from the stream of applicants those best equipped for advanced work. The methods used to effect this choice, intelligence tests, photographs, entrance examinations are simply practical rules, admittedly imperfect, which give some measure of the candidates for admission...
...institute for the 1925 season. At Bowdoin College (Brunswick), in celebration of the centenary of the graduations of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Institute of Modern Literature last week burgeoned forth, with a specialist on every branch and juicy speech-fruit for all the world to cull from the press. In Bowdoin's mellow Memorial Hall, the first to speak was Poet Robert Frost. He read Longfellow's Flight Into Egypt, dwelt a while on his own favorite theme of "vocal imagination" -"Longfellow, you see," said Poet Frost, "used no figures of speech. Our poets today...