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...There are in the U. S. no twin peaks of secondary education like Eton and Harrow, whereon hang all the pedagogical law and whose masters are the prophets. There has been no legendary "Arnold of Rugby" or "Sanderson of Oundle"* in the U. S. nor will there be. So many of our larger secondary schools were founded contemporaneously, and they soon multiplied so rapidly that though each school developed along its own lines, the special character of none had time to impress itself upon the public mind as a national institution before the coming of the public high school system...
Meantime, over in Macon County, a certain Farmer-Legislator, J. W. Butler, simple and unassuming, toiled in his fields with plow and harrow, not greatly concerned that the bill into which he had written the faith of his fathers had been seized upon as the classic foe of intellectual freedom...
...wife of Cyril Maude, smart British comedian; at Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, after a long illness. Sir William S. Gilbert, collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in light opera, sacrificed his life in 1911, when 75 years old, in rescuing her from drowning in a lake on his estate at Harrow. Mr. Maude's most recent U.S. engagement was in Aren...
...layman who wants to know what it is all about can find several admirable recent books on the subject, including Dr. Eddy's own The Vitamine Manual Funk's The Vitamines, McCollum's The Newer Knowledge of Nutrition (all more or less ex parte for their own theories) ; Harrow's Vitamines: Essential Food Factors and Sherman and Smith's The Vitamins. There is an up-to-date chapter by Eddy in Caldwell and Slosson's Science Remaking the World...
...great nephew of Dr. Montagu Butler, late master of Trinity College, W. D. Macpherson, is the representative of Cambridge University, and will study in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. A graduate of Harrow, he won a "First" in the History Tripos at Trinity and was a member of the Pitt Club. He won his colors in the first Trinity boat, was captain of the Real Tennis Team (called in America Court Tennis), and Racquets champion of the University...