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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...system now in use at Harvard is, I believe, unquestionably the best of those surveyed here. It is the only one that has a logical, well worked out theory of education behind it. The others seem to have grown up, hit or miss, with the years and the theory behind them, which I have expounded above is childish in comparison. Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Williams and Dartmouth have succeeded, by some miracle of inefficiency, in interfering both too much and too little in their students' choice of studies. Too much--because for the first two years they suppress all individuality, practically...
Within the last two years installment buying in Great Britain has grown to large proportions and at present companies are being organized to finance it. Radios and furniture are the principle articles so sold, but at the largest automobile show ever held in London (at the Olympia) "motor cars" were largely sold on the installment plan...
...letter to the Federal Radio Commission about Eric H. Palmer Jr.: ". . .I do not believe he has seen the sunlight in three months. He transmits all night and goes to sleep at 6 a.m. and sleeps until 4 p.m." Eric H. Palmer Jr. had been dropped from two schools, grown sickly. Eric H. Palmer has forbidden his son to operate his transmitting set; had even crippled the set - to no avail. Eric H. Palmer Jr. continued to tinker and pine. Eric H. Palmer had to ask the Federal Radio Commission to suspend Eric H. Palmer Jr.'s operating license...
...museum of natural history of the University of Illinois, found in a Wisconsin artificial lake several species of shellfish peculiar to fresh running water. At the end of the lake where streams entered, the mollusks had remained true to type. At the other, their shells had thickened; grown stubbier. This situation apparently proved that environment produces new varieties in low-grade forms of life...
...President's Visit" said: "Pittsburgh grown great, will grow greater. . . . It has the materials. It has the skill. It has the will. . . ." In another editorial it said: "Now let the Pittsburgh public show to the utmost its appreciation of this Pittsburgh Salon-this international exhibition of paintings...