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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grammar schools. It is further considered practicable to end this study when pupils arrive at what are called years of discretion. The purpose of such an arrangement is doubtlessly in order to impress youthful minds with the spirit of discovery and adventure. Another aspect, however, is apparent; it is found that by the mere association of ideas children can easily connect Brazil with nuts. Ceylon with tea, or even Java with coffee. By this method, they learn to the exclusion of more important facts what goes under the name of geography...
...went to preach their doctrine in foreign lands could not always overcome the love of their converts for certain native, non-Indian, divinities. The new members of the Buddhist community could not forget some of the gods worshipped by their ancestors for many generations, and means had to be found to reconcile the new faith with such deep-rooted sympathies...
...Fogg Art Museum has found it impossible to offer exhibits of every type of contemporary artistic production due to the fact that by doing so it more or less endorses the works which it would show. With the natural center for such activity eliminated the existence of this new organization is even more completely justified...
...single explanation has yet been found for these movements, but they have been attributed to various causes, such as the dashing of the waves on the coast, rippling movements in the ground caused by strong winds, temperature changes, barometric changes, and like phenomena...
...since No. 209 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, is still Arthur W. Cutten's home, it has been necessary for him to have a Wall St. representative actually on the trading floor. Such a representative he has found in his nephew, Ruloff Cutten.† If Uncle Cutten is the brain of the combination, Nephew Cutten is certainly its vigorous tongue, its potent legs. There is no more active bustler on the floor of the exchange than Nephew Cutten...