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Rescued from the dark and taken to Gallinger Hospital, Edith was found to weigh 38 Ib. Her legs were too spindly to support her shrunken body. She stared at nurses with lifeless eyes. In six weeks, however, she learned to play with dolls and children, gained 20 Ib. In court the child heard but did not pay much attention to her parents' defense: that Edith "was given to certain vicious practices," that she had to be kept away from neighborhood children, that her stepmother was not "mentally responsible...
...great westbound main lines of the B & O and Big Four (beyond these tracks flows the Ohio River). One day a train killed one of his dogs. He knew of the accident, and instead of burying his pet, left that job to the section-crew. But somebody took the lifeless body, strung it up and built the fire as described to me by the policeman who discovered it. ... MRS. EDITH JUDKINS KNAUL...
...ideally supposed to be--namely, and attempt to arouse, sustain, and direct the student's interest in the subject under consideration-- in which case the mechanical operation of taking notes distracts attention to the extent of counteracting that ideal; or else the lecture is a more runningfire of lifeless facts, and hence a use of time which might better be spent in the reading of some reliable text-book. Naturally, a lecture must embody the elemental facts of its subject, but these facts should be presented in correlation, not in compilation. Anyone who has listened as an outsider to such...
...would assist materially the educational policy which is being pursued at Princeton. This policy, if we read it aright, is to introduce the undergraduate to the materials of various fields of knowledge and encourage him to take advantage of them, rather than to confront him with a a lifeless array of facts summarizing the subject; and care is taken to wood out as soon as possible those not capable of sustaining this intellectual freedom. It is, of course, a truism that concentration and interest in a field of study increases in proportion as interruptions are eliminated...
...unerringly wooden touch of Frederick & Fanny Hatton who adapt most of them to the U. S. stage. Last month Laszlo Fodor's I Love an Actress was presented in Manhattan. Like an interesting photographic landscape, it had form and pattern but no color. Equally lifeless is A Church Mouse, another load of Fodor which relates the story of a drab little girl who has cunning enough to persuade a rich man to let her replace his mistress-secretary, finally to make her his wife. The element which made I Love an Actress bearable is also present in A Church...