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...Boys. President Henry Louis Smith of Washington and Lee University was puzzled and depressed. He was contemplating the fact that, out of every 100 U. S. youngsters who start off in kindergarten, only four or five take high school diplomas; and the further fact that of these young hopefuls, theoretically a hand-picked lot, anywhere from 10 to 25 in 100 make a dismal botch of their freshman year at college...
Child Scientists. The contrast of the U. S. boy when he enters kindergarten and when he emerges from college, is depressing. All children are natural-born scientists, and then "the little-boy spirit that makes him tear up a drum to find out what is inside gives way to the falsely superior attitude of not caring a continental"?Dr. E. Laurence Palmer, Cornell University...
...Continent and in Great Britain. It can mean almost anything, since no copyright, legal or traditional, protects its use. Some American universities, the writer asserts, are nothing but "a chaotic mixture of primary, intermediate, industrial and theological classes." Others are "educational department stores with a kindergarten at one end and Noble Prize winners at the other, with all possible forms and varsities of schooling and training, practical and professional, in between, and a mail order annex besides...
...Washington deposed Air Chief, now Colonel William E. Mitchell, entered the office of General Fechet, issued therefrom a broadside against those opposed to expansion of the Air Service. He characterized the test as a "kindergarten performance." ". . . The towing airplanes were trying to hit the muzzles of the guns with the targets. The next Congress will demand that all cards be laid on the table, to see what is vital to the defense of the nation. . . The air people will be just as aggressive in the next Congress as in the last. . . .We are now on the eve of an entire...
...Conducts the Largest Moral Kindergarten...