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...Intelligence" must be used in a sense specific and universally understood, before any theory about it can even approach validity or importance. But meanwhile, this latest hypothesis may be useful in reminding teachers of children to save their major burden of abstractions for shoulders (presumably sixteen-year-old shoulders) that are quite ready to bear them; to keep their stock of complicated facts for hands that are skilled to sort them. By such a course, many a prodigy may be saved from himself...
Election to the presidency of the American University of Beirut in 1922 is Mr. Dodge's latest honor. He is the third president of the University, in which are now enrolled 1215 students of 25 nationalities...
...York State is to be made simon-pure by the morality-makers at Albany. Their latest effort, as all now know, is directed at literature. It is, say these Solons, to be protected from itself, and kept from doing harm. The situation in a nutshell reveals an odious tale of legislative tinkering. Books are to be mailed and backed and literature to be made a handmaid of the State Legislature, People will be led with spoonvictuals of Pollyanna strain. Authorship will amount to a disgraceful truckling to the prudes of a loud-voiced minority. The public press...
...fill a producer's heart than the knowledge that the long finger of shame is being pointed at his play. Overnight a risque performance which has been quite unnoticed can spring into popularity. The New York World has just presented Mr. Brady with some front page advertising for his latest production, "A Good Bad Woman," and Mr. Brady has played up to the lead of the World very nicely. He declared himself in perfect concurrence with its desire for clean plays, and offered to remove his production from the boards--as soon as six or seven other managers whose plays...
...Their latest application of indirect methods has been directed against the evils of being born elsewhere than in these United State. The New York Federation of Women's Clubs has resolved that "no person except a natural-born citizen of the United States be eligible to be a Justice of the Supreme Court, a member of the Cabinet or Speaker of the House of Representatives." Alexander Hamilton, Carl Schurz and many other names illustrious in American history were cited by opponents of the resolution as proof that foreign birth does not disqualify a man for great service to the United...