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...five months Referee Cragen thumbed through dictionaries, scratched his pate, learned enough about lexicology to state that "the English language is not on trial." Said he: "If the court could sit in judgment on the dictionary, every one of the 40,000 contestants could come into court, contending that his or her list was the proper winning roster of words. . . ." Last week, having boiled down the case to the real issue of whether or not the contest judges had fraudulently deleted words from Gillman's roster, Referee Cragen dismissed the suit with a two-letter word...
...Carl Anderson sweated over an idea for a drawing he hoped to sell the Saturday Evening Post. Slowly, painfully the idea took form as a swaybacked, pot-bellied horse and two small boys. One boy was bald as a buzzard. The other boy lifted him up until his naked pate pressed against the horse's sagging belly. Asked the second boy, "Does your head feel warmer now, Henry...
...books ablaze and to die. Photographed by Nicolas Farkas, who directed The Battle (TIME, Dec. 3), Don Quixote is at its best when it is purely pictorial-the brilliant whites and gloomy greys of Spain; the noble nose, the gaunt cheek, the scraggly whiskers of the Don whose addled pate wears a barber's lather-bowl which he thinks is a helmet; the whirling windmills seen from a dozen different angles after the poor Don is impaled on one of them by his own spear. Notable is the picture's end. Off-screen Chaliapin sings morosely, while...
...Yale Daily News, commenting on the recent CRIMSON editorial on "Education and Pate-Stuffing," stated that "the day has not yet come when scholarship can be sacrificed altogether for "culture." This statement is one with which no serious observer of modern education would disagree. It is in the definition of scholarship that confusion arises...
...that "ability to think," which is identical with the "ability to learn," in any but the most parrot-like sense. It is in this latter sense indeed, that it is encouraged by the present system of entrance examinations, and it is in this sense that the word "pate-stuffing" has been applied. Scholarship, it is true, can not be sacrificed to "culture," but neither should it be sacrificed to rote-learning...