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Celebrating his 97th birthday, Col. Sir Fitzroy Maclean, chief of Clan Maclean, received at his home on the Isle of Mull a telegram of greeting from the Duke of Argyll, chief of Clan Campbell, Thus ended a feud which began 187 years ago when a Maclean chief suspected his wife of peccadillos with a Campbell...
...meet and concentrate together. Older boys get harder work than young ones, are graded more severely. In the beginning, concentrators peruse or hear read for three minutes a single paragraph, such as one dealing with the palindrome ("Madam, I'm Adam"). Then for seven minutes they mull over questions based on the paragraph, while their teachers endeavor to muddle them by conversing loudly. Later the class lasts longer-15 minutes for study, 15 for answers-with harder work to do: mathematical examples, psalms or poetry to be learned, a picture to be gazed at. The distractions get worse & worse...
...celebre. The Supreme Court, by 5-4 decision, denied U. S. citizenship to two Canadians, Rev. Douglas Clyde Macintosh, professor of theology in Yale Divinity School, Wartime chaplain, and Marie Averill Bland, Wartime nurse. Professor Macintosh announced that before bearing arms for the U. S., he should prefer to mull over moral causes. Miss Bland would not promise to bear arms at all. The majority of the Court solemnly pronounced: ". . . We are a Christian people. . . . But we are also a nation with the duty to survive . . . whose government must go forward upon the assumption . . . that unqualified allegiance to the nation...
Every year when the season is practically over, organizations interested in collegiate sport foregather to mull over football and its aftermath. Last week four such bodies assembled in Manhattan: National Collegiate Athletic Association...
...possibility of making steady progress without help from his usual instructor naturally grows with his experience of university life. And the concentration of his program makes much of his vacation reading repetition--a new attack on an old favorite, with many suggestions and problems of formal study to mull over and clarify in a fresh stream of impressions. The principal works are usually begun in the vac, then given considerable attention in a series of essays, then browsed over at odd times. Some months later they will again form the staple of vacation review preliminary to the final grind