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...greatest Scandinavian man of letters was born, just a century ago, the son of a bankrupt merchant in the small Norwegian town of Skien. As a boy Henrik Ibsen was apprenticed to an apothecary and helped to grind powders, make pills and mix possets. Because he did not stick to that trade, but became a great poet and a greater dramatist, all Norway united, last week, to honor his birth-cen tenary with impressive ceremonies and revivals of his greatest plays at Oslo, Norwegian capital, and in Bergen, the sea port where he lived and labored for the theatre...
...Howe. In it, 30 boys started living, working and studying last week. They were state wards of 14 and 15 years, selected by Henry Ford and the Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Welfare to be undergraduates of the Wayside Inn Trade School. Nobody pays their tuition. They will sow seeds, grind grains, bake bread, shear sheep, weave textiles to earn wages large enough to keep them in school and have a little spending money. Also they will dig into high school textbooks for four years, after which they will probably get good jobs in the Ford industries. Another modern, almost communistic...
...nine o'clock that morning Camp No. 2 had been pitched on the landing. Our guides, accustomed to the long grind, were so industrious that at four that afternoon the white tent of Camp No. 3, which was to be our highest camp, had been pitched on the landing nearest the summit. From this camp Fritz and Murgatroyd were to make the final dash. By seven o'clock the tent was full of meteorological instruments and empty bottles. At nine o'clock Fritz bought back his watch for ten blue chips, looked at it and at Murgatroyd, snapped it shut...
...four years in college. One of the most open expressions of such doubt and dissatisfaction that has recently been voiced is contained in a letter published in the current number of the Alumni Bulletin. The writer finding that his training in English has meant little more than a harrowing grind for divisional criticizes the Harvard system of instruction as applied to this department, declaring that the right kind of contact is not established between teacher and student and that "the constraining effect of divisional examinations" must be removed before a "taste for beauty" and a "cultivation of critical standards...
...Dean Gauss cannot compare with that midwife of future ages, H. G. Wells; nor as a defender of contemporary youth with such an ally of progress as Judge Lindsey. There is only this to be said for the dean, that he is level headed and has no ax to grind...