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When the World Series splashed to its rain-streaked, dramatic finish on Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, a handful of distinguished foreigners, with rain spurting in gentle rivers from the brims of their felt hats, left the field and proceeded to their hotels having learnt for the moment enough of how things are done in the U. S. They were in Pittsburgh with exactly the opposite idea-to show the U. S. how certain things are done in Europe. They had come to attend the opening of the Carnegie International Exhibition...
...Technique is a means toward expression. Technique is simply how best to do it. If countless ages of men have done a thing before, and if hundreds of those men have done it supremely well, is it not reasonable to suppose that there is a great deal to be learnt from a study of how those men have done...
...twelve-round match at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. Johnny, dressed in faded and battle-worn blue tights, was too clever for the South American, who managed with difficulty to tie two rounds and win one. The verdict favored Johnny, and all critics were agreed that Luis had learnt a valuable lesson...
...feeble efforts of Mr. Ghandi's followers to keep it alive; but the causes of that movement are still operating, and to them can be attributed the latest developments of the Indian situation. Noncoöperation is dead, but Nationalism lives and is the stronger for having learnt the lessons of Mr. Ghandi's failure. The Nationalist movement. . . . is part of the great awakening of Asia which is destined one day to baffle and alarm a war-weakened Europe...
...British explanation is interesting. "In England free education came a great deal later than compulsory education. Parents had learnt to appreciate the education that they paid for, and compulsion was hardly necessary. When free education came the position was not effected. The reverse process took place in the States. Education was free before it became compulsory, and parents never learnt to value what they paid for." And, further, it is argued that the Government Board of Education, coordinating and centralizing laws of attendance, supplies a factor altogether lacking in the United States...