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...concern for the mechanical means of education and too little attention to the long-run ends. Though one can perhaps charge Mr. Frost and those of his kind with trying to sensationalize education, so passive has the intellectual role of college students become that it takes considerable effort to jar them out of the well-marked grooves in which they slide along and to force them to do independent thinking . . . Fed several times daily on a diet of formal lectures, prodded by quizzes and factual check-up tests to take every forward step, many undergraduates lose all power of self...
Winnie Ruth Judd stuffed cans of soup, spaghetti, bread and a jar of jelly in a pillow case, stole two pairs of shoes, left a maundering letter to Governor Robert T. Jones, and slipped out. For 15 minutes she appeared at the nearby bedside of her invalid, 80-year-old father, then vanished in the night. Police watched her invalid 56-year-old husband, Dr. William C. Judd, in Sawtelle, Calif., Hospital Superintendent Louis Saxe broadcast a promise: she could run the prison beauty parlor if she'd return. One night this week a burglar fled from a Phoenix...
Pineapple juice has long been swigged by wormy natives of India, but until the Wisconsin scientists put it to laboratory test, its anthelmintic virtues were unknown to modern medicine. The scientists dropped a pair of living ascarids, taken from hogs' intestines, in a jar of juice freshly squeezed from a Cuban pineapple. Another group of worms was doused in "heat-inactivated" pineapple juice; a third in plain salt water. At the end of 24 hours the worms in the heated juice and the salt water were "very lively and active." But those in the fresh pineapple juice were "completely...
...wasted jar and wide...
...Bemelmans tales will bear reading to little tots. One such is the story of Putzi, a premature baby who lived in a jar of alcohol on its parents' mantelpiece, became a hero when his father discovered he was a perfect barometer, sinking to the bottom on approach of bad weather, bobbing to the top, with "a Lilliputian smile and rosy cheeks," at the approach of fair...