Word: fates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subject of perennial attack, the American educational system, is assailed anew in a series of articles in the current New Republic, entitled "Adult Education", with a zeal so Menckenesque that it seems almost homesick away from the more familiar pages of the Mercury. Witness this description of the sad fate of the products of the present system: "Most Americans seem to have reached mental old age at the age of thirty. They reflect in stereotypes; they converse in slogans; their thinking is reiteration, and their action consequently--violence." The remedy, say these critics, lies in continuing the educational process throughout...
...would be saved at Harvard after every exam if the female relatives of each professor would combine to work a large tapestry with each student's name and grade on it. This could be hung in the front of the room and would both let the student know his fate sooner and relieve the section men of the difficulty of correcting the papers. But best of all, and most saving of energy and time, would be the practice of sending to applicants for admission a lace handkerchief with the last day of his residence at Cambridge crocheted...
...quiver or two out of the cartoon The Retreat from Moscow. To most readers of the Lampoon this will be the appeal to strike him most strongly. A modest Proposal after the pattern of Swift is very amusing. It is enlivened with sketches portraying the dismal fate of the Harvard Undergraduate if the Proposal is ever taken seriously. A drawing on page 20 reveals some of the difficulties involved in the production of the Decameron. The whole Boccacio household is pressed into service to find some dirt for the use of the head of the family. We are not told...
Please let Will Rogers comment on Scorpio's fate. Anyway, I note that by being born at 12 p. m. Feb. 19 I just made Charles Darwin's star and missed W. J. Bryan's by a comet's hair. Whew...
...captain's own son is the vehicle of fate's revenge-a revenge in which the cruel captain and his caged mate are burned up together in the hold of the haunted ship...