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Pelorus Jack lived in Pelorus Sound, New Zealand. So great was his fame he is mentioned in Encyclopedia Britannica, which calls him "an individual . . . believed to have belonged to" the Grampus griseus species, Risso's dolphin...
...that from early youth to ripe old age Goethe drew what he called his inspiration from a series of women, very few of whom were intellectual and only one of whom he married (17 years after their child was born). Eleven of Goethe's women are named by the Encyclopedia Britannica which emphasizes that he had many another. Last week, addressing young U. S. females at Barnard College, Professor Wilhelm Braun cried: "The charm of Goethe's matchless personality is explained not by the universality of his genius but by the splendid normality of his life. He has given...
...Every candidate for the [Pope's Swiss] Guards," says the Catholic Encyclopedia, "must be a native Swiss, a Catholic, of legitimate birth, unmarried, under 25 years of age, at least 5 ft. 8 in. in height, healthy, and free from bodily disfigurements. Whoever is not eligible for military service in Switzerland, is likewise re fused admission into the Guards. . . . The duties of the Guards are as follows: They are respon sible for the guarding of the sacred person of the Pope and the protection of the Apostolic Palaces, all exits from the palace to the city and the entrance...
Modest, Educator Wells does not regard his one-man encyclopedia as definitive. He says: "As soon as they can be replaced by fuller and more lucid versions of what they have to tell, their usefulness will cease." In 16 chapters, two volumes, 924 pages, he takes a quick, keen look at the economic world-scene, comes to the melioristic conclusion that "this adventure may continue and our race survive." Some of the chapter-headings : The Conquest of Distance; of Hunger; of Climate; How Goods are Bought and Sold; Why People Work; How-Work is Paid for and Wealth Accumulated...
Rightly, and inevitably, tutors will decide on their own methods of instruction, but they ought always to be guided by the axiomatic principles of the tutorial function. Among these unwritten laws the first would be to avoid being primarily a convenient encyclopedia of useful information. And the second would be like unto it: to give the student some insight into the problems of his field and to inspire him to study them intelligently for himself...