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...SHOW?McCready Huston?Scribner ($2). With the edge of his desire for adventurous living dulled by environment, Branch Diversey found himself, at the outset of the War, an onlooker at life. Brought up by an overcareful mother, he had not followed his gay and reckless stepfather into the professional life of the circus. Instead he had made himself a rich lawyer by marrying the daughter of a political boss. Unsatisfied in his desire to live thoroughly and without compromise, he leaves his wife and goes to another girl in whom he has seen the possibility of a deeper relationship, tells...
...would appear doubtful if any of those who have found themselves unsuited to a college education ever suspected that they would so find it until they had learned by experience. Obviously Dr. Faunce seeks to awaken saving suspicions in the minds of such as have at the outset little chance of finding value in higher education, but it is a question whether, even if awakened, the suspicions would be taken seriously. Only a few of pre-college age, or older for that matter, are able to speak freely and with assurity about their tastes and latent possibilities, where even...
Miss Puller was a member of the French ambulance corps during the war. She enlisted at the outset of the war, and remained in service until the Armistice was signed. After the was she was presented with a Croix de Guerre for her bravery and service. Commenting on her experiences, Miss Puller said, "While I was in service I drove an ambulance, and received as many thrills doing that as I do now working on the stage. The stage business, however, prepared me for the strain of the battlefield, and the battlefield helped to better condition me for the stage...
...based if success is to be assured. There are in these four principles no loopholes for the individualist; the development of self for which we raise our modern hue and cry gets short shift beside the more universal principles of Keyserling's philosophy. As he agrees at the outset "the fundamental problems of life cannot be settled according to a schedule, because they are both in reality and intrinsically individual problemss; on every occasion when they arise the individual character of each affords the only starting-point for its solution, and consequently in every single case the solution must...
...spite of democratic theories, the advance of culture depends on the few rather than the many. A plan of college admissions looking toward the selection of the leaders at the outset of their career is certainly less wasteful than a system admitting a greater number. With a lack of educational facilities, the universities can not afford to spread their efforts think over a large mass of mediocre material...