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...very excellent method for eliminating students who are not as limited as the question-maker in their reaction to a generous subject. To produce failures by this process is to put a great indignity upon youth and start some very unnecessary and unfortunate revulsion's which will impair his strength in vital places and rob him of the whole value of what might have been highly nutritive. And there are enough specialists--people of linear dimension. Colleges should produce these only incidentally, and make more three dimensional people out of its pupils...
...social service activities, mark a definite attempt to effect periodical examination of all the children in the care of the Boston settlement houses. It is explained that the immediate need for such supervision arises from the danger of permitting physically deficient children to engage in athletics which might permanently impair their health. It is to combat this danger, arising from the ignorance of parents under a regulation which refuses them access to the physical reports of the public schools, that these students of the medical and dental schools will be employed...
...literature, or in any one department of learning, the idea is wholly acceptable, but as a contest to ascertain the relative amounts of culture in one university and another, it is meaningless. It is to be hoped that the inactivity forced on the wits this season will not seriously impair their cerebral accomplishments so that we may look forward to another illuminating and amusing showdown in the future. Cornell...
Last week Black, Starr & Frost and its near neighbor, the Gorham store (not the Gorham manufacturing concern) were working out details of a merger, which obviously could not impair the traditions of either. Alfred & Co. are the bankers...
...wisdom of any step but the construction of steel stands. Concrete seats built now would represent a waste when the present Stadium shall be abandoned. As much room may be found in a set of steel stands closing the open end of the Stadium which will not impair the usefulness of the track and may be removed at will...