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...answering dust. Utterly discouraged with the futility of all educational institutions, this fiery and pessimistic crusader bitterly cites the Chinese famine, the disarmament conference, and the sordid evils of industrialism and finally points an interrogatory finger at the student, idle and ineffectual, at the teacher, cynical and discouraged. Inert ideas, learning unrelated to life, dullness in the classroom are some of the charges brought against modern education. "I leave the question with you" challenges this saddened educator, hoping but little...
...must have been standing when shot, suggesting that the speedboat was stopped when fired upon. He said that Downey had bled to death because the guardsmen had not called for help or administered first aid. While they loitered, city police summoned an ambulance and a fire truck, hoisted the inert 200-lb. Downey out of the launch...
...into the big silvery bag. He accompanied his shot with dancing, gesticulations and lilliputian shouts. The lead pellets, though buckshot, tore only small holes in the ship's fabric. But they might have struck machinery, caused disaster. Had the Los Angeles been inflated with inflammable hydrogen instead of inert helium, she might have blown up. And anyway, it is not proper to shoot at the U. S. Navy's one and only big dirigible. Carpenter Merton Hankins, the lilliputian gunner, was arrested. Last week he was tried for assault with attempt to kill...
...advanced for their alleged failure. Some say our huge schools are intellectual filling-stations where culture may be had in any given quantity or quality regardless of the student's gas capacity. The remedies suggested are many, but among the more popular is the one of breaking these inert masses up into smaller colleges after the fashion of Oxford and Cambridge. And it may well be that salvation lies that way. Certainly the system seems to work in England, for like it or not, English universities leave certain characteristic marks on their graduates. One thing they have which must exert...
...caused him to fall upon the floor. His wife, when she entered the room and saw her prostrate husband, swooned in a corner. The elder son of William M. Duncan came into the room, saw his parents lolling in their coma, and crumpled up beside them. All three were inert upon the floor when the younger son of the Duncans sauntered in and the iad staggered to the telephone and whispered to a doctor. When the physician arrived, he found four Duncans stretched unconscious on the carpet...