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...cause of extra-scholastic activities in these columns, because we believe that education is not so much a process of absorption of facts and concepts as it is a functioning of the organism in response to stimuli of the social and physical environment. Book-knowledge is but the merest fraction of the learning involved in the integration of the individual to his group. It should be the purpose of any college to prepare the student for social citizenship in the broad expanse beyond its walls. How can it do this except through imitation of social living on a smaller scale...
Like Tsar Nicholas II's sickly little Tsarevitch, the Prince of the Asturias (Crown Prince of Spain) was afflicted from birth with haemophilia, a dread and supposedly incurable disease. When a haemophile receives even the slightest cut his wound heals so slowly that from the merest scratch he may bleed to death. The Prince of the Asturias, 23, suddenly appeared in Paris not only in apparent good health but palpably, impressively robust...
...single) pays more than half he earns in income tax alone, while the U. S. citizen (married or single), who makes $1,000,000 a year is allowed to keep more than two-thirds of it. In both countries deductions for wife and children amount to only the merest trifle on an income of $50,000 or more. The million-a-year bachelor, in either country, is as well off from the tax standpoint as the million-a-year father with a big family of children...
...long, there gleams at last a ray of hope that she may again cleanse her fair name and wipe the muck from her escutcheon. Under the guidance of her sturdy constabulary a reform is now in progress so startling and courageous in its nature that only the merest guess can be ventured as to the far reaching consequences which may eventually be involved...
...Some of it is plainly superfluous and some of it should be dismissed immediately as the merest flubdub and flapdoodle-inherited rubbish...