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Like Professor Babbitt, Mr. Jones offers no plan for reconstruction. He is sick of plans, and all the pictures of graph-mad and system-ridden normal school experimenters which they connote. He merely desires a healthy clearing of the underbrush of American education, and an unplanned but carefully nurtured reforestation of sound principles...
...mice out of their hole onto his drawing board. When they assumed faintly human attitudes, his guffaw of delight sent them scampering back. Then, singlehanded, with $40. he tried to make an animated cartoon cinema called Steamboat Willie. His brother lent him several hundred dollars more to photo graph it and get to Hollywood. The pic ture did not sell but it got him a studio job. Soon after he invented an Oswald the Rabbit cartoon. Sound came to the cinema and his boss scrapped Oswald and Disney. With $15,000 savings, he and his elder brother went to work...
...they do not understand the intricate new machinery with which they work. If they can be educated to use the machinery properly, however their added enthusiasm will eventually make the Soviet output even greater than that of America. This doctrine is developed chiefly by means of an elaborate running graph towards the close of the picture which has all the possibilities of an exciting horse race. Ultimately the white line wins and the Soviets reward the victorious brigade. You see, comrade, all this is in extenuation of the failure of the Russian five-year plan...
Each week the Harvard players write down their moves for the four games and send them by postcard to Powell. The progress of the game is kept on a graph. It is expected that this match will last about a year...
Last spring the Student Council compiled a graph which demonstrated in striking fashion that "the great bulk of new accommodations added by the House Plan have been priced at $280 and above per man, and that there is need for an increase in the number of medium priced rooms around $240 and $260 per student." With this report in mind, the administration has fixed the median of the new rates at about $260. Further than this, the whole scale of rents between $500 and $600 has been wiped out and large additions have been made to the number of rooms...