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...office in Boston, salty old Porter Sargent, whose sharp eyes and ears miss very little that is written or said about U. S. education, last week issued his annual report on the state of the nation's biggest business.* Mr. Sargent, prefacing the 23rd edition of his famed handbook of private schools with a 160-page sound-off,† found the state of education more than normally alarming. During the year private schools, for example, were sharply criticized-luxurious Lawrenceville's Headmaster Allan V. Heely went so far as to call them an expensive and perhaps useless luxury...
...Speakers; Harry W. Hollmeyer '40, Library; Harry Newman, Jr. '42, Freshman; Archibald M. McMillan 1Dv. and Roger Schafer '41, Foreign Students; William B. Daughaday '40, Arthur W. Page, Jr. '40 and Benjamin Wilcox, Jr. '40, Senior Advisory; Robert E. Russell '41, Information; and J. Warren Palm '40, Handbook Committee...
...educational attempt to save some of the 150,000 U. S. citizens who are killed by the disease every year, Clarence Cook ("Pete") Little, famed researcher on cancer and heredity and head of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, this week published the first calm, sensible handbook on cancer.* Significant facts...
...since 1916 has Jane's been edited by a Jane. Founded 41 years ago by Fred T. Jane, a Devonshire parson's sea-smitten son who had run away to London in his youth to write about ships, Jane's handbook was turned over to Dr. Oscar Parkes on the death of Founder Jane. Dr. Parkes, who combined his practice as a London neurologist with an interest in the world's fighting ships, served during the latter part of the World War in Britain's crack Naval Intelligence Division...
...medical profession by one of its greatest bran enthusiasts. Its author is Dr. Bernard Fantus, professor of therapeutics of the University of Illinois' medical school. Eighteen years ago, before the profession in general had really begun its modern investigation of cathartics, the American Medical Association published a handbook on the subject written by Dr. Fantus. One of its chapters was on bran, of which he was an early advocate...