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...they very suggestion that four years of school might be accomplished in three turns the significance of Plan C into much deeper channels. Many thinkers besides Stephen Leacock have complained that education, is "catting up" life, that repetition and waste study are becoming a farce. Three years, for example, are too often spent on French and German where two, if efficiently taught, would be equally complete. The problem of Plan C goes hand in hand with a thorough inspection of scholastic curriculum. If progress is to be made in college admission requirements, all down the line of high school subjects...
TIME's "People" department of the July 17 issue mentions our Canadian economist-humourist Stephen Leacock and the rescue he was involved in recently. Though your staff usually get the background for their stories pretty well, they missed out on this For early in his writing career, in his volume Sunshine Sketches, Leacock dealt with the small-town doings of his home in Ontario. His yarn of the sinking of the Mariposa Belle with a picnic crowd aboard has the same essence of humour as the real affair did last week. The Mariposa Belle starts to sink and finally...
...squall struck Lake Couchiching near his summer home, capsizing a canoeist, Humorist Stephen Leacock set out to the rescue in his motor launch with Caretaker Jack Kelly & Mrs. Kelly. As the launch pulled away from the dock, Mrs. Kelly fainted. Dr. Leacock put back to the dock and Mrs. Kelly came to. Once more Dr. Leacock set forth to the rescue. Once more Mrs. Kelly swooned. After putting her ashore once & for all, Humorist Leacock reached the half-drowned canoeist hauled him aboard...
...formal education never hurt any comedian. It is a misconceived notion that a person has to be unlettered in order to be funny. Look at one of the greatest humorists in the world today--Stephen Leacock. Why, that man holds degrees from Oxford, and he taught Political Science at McGill . . . Yet he knocks 'em in the aisles once he gets started...
...Montreal's Loew's Theatre, McGill University marched for its annual convocation, for a farewell to stumpy, grizzled oldtime Humorist Stephen Leacock (Nonsense Novels). Retiring at 66 after 33 years in McGill's department of political economy, Humorist Leacock cheerfully became an L.L.D. Promised he: "When I go on the shelf I mean to stay there. ... From now on I shall reflect a lot and say nothing." ¶ Pet college of Publisher William Randolph Hearst, who went to Harvard for three years, is Ogelthorpe University (Atlanta, Ga.) which in return for financial benefactions and a woodsy tract...