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...prime example of his period and place, Noah Webster (1758-1843) was a school-teacher who by zeal and persistence became a Citizen Fixit to the whole U. S. Because he insisted on bursting out of his own bailiwick to mend his neighbors' manners, he was not popular; but before he died the U. S. was proud of him. Even more than his Dictionary his famed blue-backed Speller (which sold nearly 100 million copies before it went out of use) knit U. S. dialects together into one more-or-less standard tongue, poured a patriotic iron tonic into...
...clasticity of the quota system as it is now organized is witnessed by the number of men who either last Summer or in the Fall had had a change of heart with regard to concentration and were permitted by the various departments concerned to mend their mistakes. The need for such generosity would to a large degree have been obviated if the proper choice of a field of concentration had been made in the first place. When the present Freshman Adviser system, with its absolute incapacity to guide the undecided student along the paths most advantageous to him, has been...
...tongue about. He begins with the observation that "Maine is a masculine Riviera." He progresses to Bismarck's solution of the Irish question, to wit: send the Irish to Holland, the Dutch to Ireland. The Dutch would soon make Ireland a garden. The Irish would soon forget to mend the dikes. Finally he reaches the heart of his cynically expedient philosophy by recalling that he started out as an eye-ear-nose-&-throat man, but soon shifted to psychiatry because "the poor have tonsils, but only the rich have souls...
...have the students select those needing such a course would be impolitic and impractical. Instead Professor Packard might himself attend lectures, and choose the delinquents; his censure would have the force of authority and should agitate the offenders into some effort to mend their faults...
...revival of Carmen with Rosa Ponselle. Soprano Ponselle had her chance (TIME, Jan. 6). Last week an audience was agog over another Carmen who sang in Swedish while the rest of the cast sang in French, who lost the heel of one slipper, casually attempted to mend it, finally hurled it into the wings and hopped with one shoe on & one shoe off for the remainder...