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...walkout of coal miners at Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, last month, was the subject of an interpellation in the House of Commons at Ottawa. Miss Agnes MacPhail asked if the Government intended to sit calmly "while thousands are starving in Cape Breton." James A. Robb, Minister of Finance, stated laconically that no change of policy was contemplated. The strike grew out of an attempt to apply a 10% wage cut, but did not become active until the coal company contended that the workers had overdrawn their credit at the company's supply stores, cut off further credit. Twelve thousand...
...direct ratio between brains and dollars is more or less established for the individual. The ratio between a father's dollars and his offspring's brains is another question. Last week, the Federal Bureau of Education announced that, according to the researches of one Andrew H. MacPhail and the late Professor Stephen S. Colvin of Brown University, this latter ratio is also direct...
...MacPhail and Colvin, by means of psychological and other tests, surveyed the mentality of 3,333 boys and girls in senior classes of Massachusetts high schools. They found that a curve representing their subjects' intelligence followed closely the downward trend of another curve representing the incomes pf their subjects' parents. Professional men stood at the top of the income graph; their children at the top of the mentality index. Farmers and their children footed both indices...
...Miss Agnes MacPhail, only woman M. P. of Canada, called at the White House and talked to Mr. Coolidge about farming...
Score, Harvard Freshmen 2, Exeter 0. Goals, Zarakov, Coady. Time, three 12-minute periods. Referee, Dagnino. Harvard 1927 Exeter Scott, Gross, Vander Horst, l.w. r.w., Crosby Zarakov, Gross, Cabot, c. c., Chase Hamlen, Burnett, Ellison, r.w. l.w., James, Thomas Wylde, Bohlen, l.d. r.d., Foster Coady, r.d. l.d., MacPhail, Higgins Flood, Daly, g. g., Bott