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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Army recruiting officers are expected to be good salesmen. Upon the city streets they often select their dejected-looking prospects, slap them on the backs, say: "Brace up ... be a man . . . join the Army ... it is warm now down in Texas and Georgia; there are hopes and thrills out in Hawaii...
...make a good racer brains are a prime requisite. From early youth one is confronted with running to the drug store etc, but when one has to outfoot someone that can make his less move as fast as you can, brains are needed, and the difference in brains is often the difference in great runners...
...public may like to be fooled; it is often considered perfectly legitimate to fool them. We rather balk, though, at bricks gilded with piety. Swindling is never commendable; when supported by ministers of the Gospel and the sanctity of the Church, it is somewhat shocking...
...will develop an educational system much like the one existing on the continent of Europe at the present time. A boy at fourteen will have to decide forever his future field of activity. The evils of the scheme are well known. A dwarfed perspective and ill adjustment are too often the results. The American schools are asked to choose between carburetors and the classics. Fortunately New England is conservative...
...been the object of the editors to use the possibilities in the way indicated and often the results have been gratifying. Without, however, a wide knowledge of the reactions of their public, the progress has been somewhat in the dark. It is the purpose of this editorial to invite comment from the readers of the BOOKSHELF. The editors will be grateful for the recommendations of particular books: but they desire suggestions which bear on the general plan of the undertaking. To the extent that responses do this, they will clarify what otherwise must remain very indefinite reasoning on the part...