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Because I have been interested in collecting the folklore of American printing and printers I should be glad if anyone can accurately trace this custom of turning tombstones face down to the use of irreverent printers...
...however, does not travel in a conventional asteroid path, wanders sometimes between Mars and Jupiter, sometimes between Mars and Earth. Discovered in 1898 by Dr. Gustav Witt at the Urania Observatory in Berlin, the small planet was given a masculine name because of its eccentric orbit. According to astronomical custom, only asteroids which move in an ordinary orbit are given feminine names. The cycle of Eros' motion with relation to Earth is 81 years. In 1975 it will approach even nearer than this year, will again be a handy though tiny target for rocketeers...
...placid, smiling man, Dr. Albert Einstein, walked slowly up & down the streets of Pasadena, Calif, last week. According to his usual custom he wore no hat. His stubborn hair stood on end, its whiteness making his brown eyes seem black. He probably did not realize that the U. S. scientists who occasionally join him in his daily stroll hold their own hats at their sides out of deference to him. Dr. Einstein had been in Pasadena for three weeks. His Frau Elsa had established him comfortably in a seven-room English bungalow. Every morning he works in his study...
...draw the line between the pursuit of the proper individualism and selfishness. There can be little doubt that the tendency of the modern undergraduate to do what he pleases first, last, and always is as much of a distortion of true values as the most depraved dependence upon form, custom, tradition and so forth. He thinks that he is successfully resisting traps into which others before him have fallen. In reality, he is just as blind to his best interests as in the other extreme...
...miscellaneous character of American curricula. Students there are trained in fundamentals and are steered away from any specialization which tends toward a vocation. Furthermore the acquirement of knowledge is a matter of self-discipline and individual responsibility to the German undergraduate rather than the too-frequent American custom of coaching from the dean's office...