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Wasn't that a typographical error in the story you published in the current issue of TIME (July 25, p. 23, col. 3) under the head: "Elks" where you refer to them at their Cincinnati convention as 5,000 strong, "marching, singing, trapshooting, eating 'burgoo' [Kentucky stew], watching fire-works." I visited Cincinnati the following week and heard nothing of trapshooting, but everybody could point out to me the big hotel in front of which crap-shooting was indulged in openly and without molestation by the police authorities. Of course I was told this with a wry face...
...credit" system is the object of a particularly pointed attack by Dr. William Setchel Learned of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, in a paper on "The Quality of the Educational Process in the United States and in Europe" in the Foundation's current bulletin. Dr. Learned contrasts the disciplined convergence upon a single field, in European scholarship, with the dissipation of energy and attention permitted in U. S. classrooms, where Humorist Stephen Leacock pretended to find a student "taking Turkish, music and architecture not because he meant to be choirmaster in a Turkish cathedral but because...
...results of an expensive experiment reported last week at the farms of Donald Woodward, gentleman farmer of Le Roy, N. Y. Mr. Woodward had his fields plowed by a share charged with 103,000 volts of electricity. Inventor Hamilton L. Coe of Pittsburgh had told Mr. Woodward that the current would electrocute weeds, grubs, soil bacteria. Crops, he said, would spring from the volt-purged ground in record time and abundance...
Nikola Tesla, genius extraordinary of electricity, predicted last week as he has been predicting since 1895 or so that enormous stores of power will some day be broadcast by radio; when that is possible, that airplanes will need no fuel. They will fly indefinite lengths of time on current flashed to them from any distance...
...Rubber Co. stockholders last week ratified by vote the peace-plan that Owen D. Young suggested to them two months ago (TIME, May 23). They had been quarreling for years about the way the company was operated. Last week they approved selling $60,000,000 bonds to replace several current issues; elected 17 directors (who chose seven of their number to be the company's executive committee); re-elected Paul W. Litchfield president...