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...increase their reading speed approximately fifty per cent, but half of their number showed definite improvement in their marks from November to February. In spite of this striking indication of the relation between reading ability and the mastery of courses, the University has conspicuously not leapt into action to hasten the experiment, and make it available to the general student body...
Last week India's prohibition movement made its biggest advance. India's second largest city, Bombay, will be bone dry next August-as far as Indians are concerned. Purred Mahatma Gandhi over his latest success: "If India carries out prohibition, it may well hasten the return of prohibition in the United States...
...Reds" and "communists" is current fashion, but quite unjustifiable. In the bandying of prejudicial epithets, now in vogue, the Medical Bureau has been defined by a New England journal as "a bolshevist organization with headquarters in Moscow." Lest the credulous believe, let me, as national chairman of the Bureau, hasten to testify that it is an American organization with headquarters in New York...
...Consider: temperature 98°, humidity 34%, gives humiture 66. Now assume temperature 34°, humidity 98%, gives humiture 66. I hasten to assure you that "the man on the street" will in no wise feel the same. My best observations so far are: multiply the temperature by 5, add the humidity and divide the sum by 6 to obtain the tempidity...
...circulating information from House to House concerning individual activities and experiments, could be administered to. It is with caution that the Houses are launching their new ventures of year books and ambitious dramatic productions. The Inter-House Committee, as a common source of information, would do much to hasten the development of the House system. Through this medium the other Houses could readily gain information concerning the pitfalls encountered by the Kirkland Year Book project or the Leverett newspaper...