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...things scholastic, even the teaching of the three rudimentary R's is often inefficient and unsatisfactory. If this state of affairs is remedied, and an effective system installed which would insure better, more uniform standards from Provincetown to San Francisco, Dean Churchill's educational millenium would be considerably nearer at hand...
...Reduction bill, having passed out of the hands of the House with 37½% surtaxes (TiME, March 10), dallied in the Senate Finance Committee before appearing on the floor of the Upper House. What its fate will be there is uncertain. Some say the surtax rates will be lowered nearer the Mellon (25%) rates; some that they will be raised nearer the Garner (44%) rates. The latter opinion seems to be gaining. During the interval of expectation, there was last week a little comedy enacted over that section of the bill which promises a 25% flat reduction for all income...
...given her a case of aggravated amorousness. A Russian surgical instrument maker, half genius, half charlatan, who received his early training in the Chicago stockyards, guarantees to cure her with a movable rack, if she will lie strapped to it for a year while her limbs are remoulded nearer to the heart's desire. This Napoleonic upstart, imperious, wilful, has been proscribed by the British Royal College of Surgeons for-bone-setting without a degree; his string of cures being nullified in their eyes by the lack of a string of Latin words after his name. He believes...
Also, if Mr. Shepherd really believes that modern society is tottering nearer and nearer the grave, it is indeed fortunate for his own peace of mind that similar experiments have not been made among the generality of college students, for whom, one fears, the age of accountability may be placed lar beyond twelve. Lives there a man in any of the Newtons, for example, who has not found that it is possible to travel from Harvard Square, with transfer, to almost any outlying point for only five cents instead of the legally ordained ten? And yet to argue...
...Indeed the figure with which I started falls short of conveying the full effect of Miss Farrar's presence. ... If I had said, therefore, that the arbour concealed one of those marvelous implements that cut, thrash and sack the grain, all in a single operation, I should have come nearer the ideal description...