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Professor Hillyer went on to indicate that another advantage of the conference system is that the students will be able to develop taste in writing, which is an individual question and cannot be worked out in large groups Furthermore, the system will fend to fit in more closely with the tutorial plan, which is becoming increasingly important in the college. Questioned whether there would be an increase of prescribed reading, he answered that, on the other hand, the men would be urged to develop their own fasts as much as possible
...Jake Shubert of Manhattan, trotting nervously about the wide stage, castigating carpenters, bellowing at ballerinas. A characteristic Shubert addition is the $10,000 revolving stage, largest in the U. S., built between Forest Park's renowned and majestic twin oaks (heavily insured, dosed with castor oil to fend off sickness). Director Shubert has $36,000 to spend on each production, a chorus of 84 "Muny"-trained native sons and daughters, a professional ballet of 16, a symphony orchestra of 50, a different cast of first-rate performers for each presentation (an innovation). On good nights when it does...
Last and greatest event will be the National Rifle Team Match. To win this each branch of U. S. armed forces strives doggedly. Sights are smoked with candle flames so that a finer "bead" may be drawn. Shoulders are padded with sheep hide and rags to fend the recoil. Windage and elevation are shrewdly calculated, lucky pieces rubbed. Classic is the tale of one Infantry marksman who would not change his underclothing during his three weeks at Camp Perry, fearing it would affect his condition in the Team shoot. The great event, shot at 1,000 yards, is usually held...
...children upon a scientifically desert island near Nicaragua, without a single adult to hamper their reversion to the primitive. They are of both sexes and many nations. All are between five and eight, an age which, for the sake of argument, is thought of as sufficiently old to fend for itself amidst tropical abundance yet too young for sex-consciousness or lasting memories of home and parents. In their "flower-splashed paradise" the children run nude, wild and healthy. Clans form. Blood tells. A language, God, property, marriage, fire, alcohol, boats, song, dancing, war and many another accessory of civilization...
...consider Mr. Bausman's thesis. The Allies engineered the war, which Germany did not seek, but rather tried to fend off, and the British by almost ingenious propaganda infected the pure American air so successfully that Wilson himself, suspicious as he was of the Allies' war aims, succumbed and led the United States to war. Mr. Bausman concludes that the delay of this action till 1917 was at least a negative blessing, as an earlier entry would have meant the triumph of Russian arms and Russian preponderance in Europe. Finally, when the Allies triumph with America's inestimable aid, they...