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...Mush-eaters...
There seem to be two functions of the present mush maligned examination system. First, to disclose the extend of the student's knowledge. Second, to make him study. In the graduate schools, where the students are more mature and experienced, the first purpose is sufficiently accomplished by one examination at the end of each course. There is no need for the second use one studies or flunks. One examination would be sufficient to disclose the knowledge of a college course too, but the stimulus of frequent examinations is felt by all perhaps erroneously to be necessary in order...
Nevertheless, shoulder-slapping, grips and the password, "Howdy, Pap!" were not entirely laid aside before the Mooses sat down to discuss their concrete program. The word "pap" does not connote, to Mooses, a bland sort of mush or gruel fed to infants. When Moose greets Moose he merely pronounces the initials of "Purity, Aid, Progress." There was, of course, a gorgeous parade, which rain could not discourage, through streets which the Philadelphia Moose lodge (the largest, with 30,000 members) had spent some $35,000 to decorate becomingly with moose statues on pedestals, an arch of loyalty, flags, bunting...
...government mail service won the eleventh annual U. S. dog derby, a much shorter event. Breaking no record he covered the 25-mile course in 1 hr., 57 min., 16 sec., evoked comment by using a team of Irish setters. The latter are said to have understood the term "Mush!" perfectly, to have behaved beautifully in the absence of quail, pheasant...
...while, fights predatory waterpower interests, tries city life, goes back at last to the cows, mountains, little grey home and prospective patter of tiny feet. But with what a difference are these properties handled by a man who writes with a mind instead of a sack of mush! Instead of lollipops we get literature. For pap is substituted philosophy of a distinctly austere variety...