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...absent in the natural sciences; particularly in the biological sciences a good memory is the most essential weapon with which to fight an exam. Nevertheless, the laboratory periods counteract many evils, forcing the student as they do to solve the problem on his own by applying what he has learnt. The social sciences need "laboratory work" of the same kind. Tutorial and written papers are both steps in the right direction. Most important of all is that the teachers of the social sciences realize that their main object is not to present their field to the student on a platter...
...have read the TIME some times. And now I have a great request for you. I were happy, if you do me the favor. I have learnt the English language a long time by textbooks. And now I might it businesslike apply and myself improve. I think, the best way is to correspond with an American. Therefore I beg you is there not a girl, about 14-18 years old she will correspond with me. Perhaps is one in your office or one of your employees has a daughter or relation. Please, do me favour. If you have found...
...shares top honors in breast-stroke with Berizzi and his regular, long-coasting stroke will make him hard to keep up with in the 200. Phil Walker has been fast in practice and in the Alumni meet in which he took a third, while Jack Waldron, who has just learnt the butterfly this year, is expected to show some speed...
...though his parentage is as much in doubt as his early life. A seafaring man of some sort he became, and by the time he was 45 he was well known in the little colony of New York as a competent skipper and a man of substance. Where he learnt his competence and where he got his substance is conjectural: probably the East Indies. As a citizen of Manhattan, Kidd married a twice-widowed lady, built a house on the Hudson and traded in real estate. One of the lots he sold is now No. 56 Wall Street. When Trinity...
...twelve young officers sent to England to get his training straight from the lion's mouth. To his British instructors too he seemed sound. "He was not what you would call brilliant, but a great plodder, slow to learn, but very sure when he had learnt; and he wanted to learn everything!" When his mates called him "Johnny Chinaman" he took it in good part, said nothing, plugged ahead. After two years in England Togo got back to Japan to find that his superiors had let no barnacles grow on their keels, either. Before he was 40, Togo...