Word: evens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...success in the Business School as well as in various courses in the college. It may well be that the experiment at the School of Education by its training of future secondary school teachers and administrators in new uses of motion pictures, will in the long run have an even more significant effect on its broad development...
Thurston is now Houdini. He describes his tricks, but never explains them. His most sensational "illusion" was chopping off a friend's head. Because women fainted he never repeated it. He is contemptuous of Oriental "magic." Out of three thousand fakirs he examined in India, not one had even heard of the rope trick. (A rope is thrown into the air, is mysteriously suspended while a boy climbs up it, disappears.) The easiest people to fool, says Thurston, are scientists, men-of-letters, psychologists. The hardest are lawyers and preachers because "they do not lose their poise" when invited...
Much of this has been said before, but Marriage and Morals is valuable for being at once fundamental and clear, unbiased and persuasive. Author Russell tries to go to the root of each of his ideas, to explain asceticism, romanticism. He takes nothing for granted, not even that parents are beneficial for their children. He writes as a humanist, defending the happiness of man against many moral prejudices, advocates his changes lucidly and wittily...
...particular field, would enable such research to be carried out systematically by the ablest body of men which could be assembled. It would obviate the parallelism which exists in the graduate schools and research laboratories of the country's colleges, and would enable science to pool its resources. Perhaps even most important it would simplify the administration of the modern college, which of recent years has become a monster on unwieldy proportions...
...while the subject of remedying the defects of the stadium is still fresh, the stairs that lead down from the colonnade seats back of the stadium should show likewise in the improvements. As the afternoons become shorter the passage is completely dark before the close of the game, even when, as on last Saturday, it is called at two o'clock. The descending crowds have been obliged to grope their way down, and miscalculation on the part of an individual could cause considerable damage not only to himself but to those in front of him. It is to be hoped...