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...very sorry I haven't written to you sooner. You must think it very ungracious of me, but we've had a lot of war about for the time of year, which has kept us busy. . . . I leapt into my country's breach wearing a tin helmet, dungarees and a lace brassiere...
...Guinea Pigs increase their reading speed approximately fifty per cent, but half of their number showed definite improvement in their marks from November to February. In spite of this striking indication of the relation between reading ability and the mastery of courses, the University has conspicuously not leapt into action to hasten the experiment, and make it available to the general student body...
...general effect of the college boards is double. On the one hand, it forces the student to view his pre-college training as a series of hurdles to be leapt before he falls into the green pastures of a university. But lo and behold! once alighted he will discover that University Hall urges the mature student, through the general exam and tutorial systems, to see college as another series of jumps, climaxing in one big water hazard at the end. This conception of hurdles, series, and incessant academic strife seems at bottom false, an example of the commercialization of learning...
Objects fairly leapt from the screen as the Engineering Society viewed three-dimensional color movies at a meeting in Pierce Hall last night. The effect of these pictures was so realistic that onlookers had the sensation of gazing at a scene through a window rather than seeing a picture projected on a screen...
TIME'S editors, bemused by gout, evidently have never leapt walls. In your issue of Jan. 17 you show a picture of Britain's gaitered Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain "leaping" a stone wall. Look more closely. There is a ladder in the right-hand corner. Mr. Chamberlain has climbed up the ladder and is now gingerly stepping off. He is going to land stiff-legged at that. He will probably wryly agree that a leap should be goaty, not gouty...