Word: mutt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Instruction Methods. A resolution was passed urging all schools to install radios, "the most effective means now at hand to bring about desirable changes." A speech: Simplify marking systems so that parents can understand. Another speech: Do not classify children into groups, into "mutt classes," "dumbbells," "morons;" "low I. Q.'s" (Intelligence Quotient). "Incalculable harm may be done by giving children paralyzing inferiority complexes." Another speech: Since the advent of the "junior high school" (seventh to tenth grades), the fourth and fifth grades have been a "dumping ground" for inferior teachers, the best teachers being concentrated in kindergarten work...
Engaged. Harry C. ("Bud") Fisher, famed comic artist of Mutt and Jeff; to La Comtesse Aedita de Beaumont, "winner of a Paris beauty contest...
...certain Dean tells me with much gusto of the miracle I performed on his wheel while he finished dessert during the lunch hour with his family. I addressed envelopes and painted wagons. I sold the Lampoon for "Alex," and I wrote an article about the humor in "Mutt and Jeff" for the Boston American, I went without lunch sometimes and occasionally I wore two rubbers that belonged on the left foot. I rode an old bicycle to save carfare, for I hated debt and under no consideration could I bring myself to ask assistance from the loan fund...
...Emory 21, and S. H. Humes 2L, known as the "Mutt and Jeffs," together with Paris Fletcher 1L and L. T. Wade 2L, or the "Appleknockers," are the Law School cycle aces. Each pair possesses a two-seated machine and have proclaimed their proficiency in the sport by issuing a challenge to all comers. An undergraduate duet, who withhold their names for the present, have accepted the offer under the title of "Authony and Cleopatra," and have began rigorous training...
...from Mutt and Jeff to a "Good Bad Woman," yet Mr. James M. Call draws an analogy between them that should prove more than amusing. An editorial writer on the World, he dares to denounce in the current Nation his journal's advocacy of play censorship. Art may take it or leave it; and if he wants amusement without art, that, too, is up to him. Mr. Cain has brought the argument to the World's own doorstep. Its comic strips lay no claim to artistic intent, and they very frequently lanse into coarseness. If burlesque shows amuse "sailors, soldiers...