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...danger stage.' It usually comes after the first few days; the candidate has worked hard with small success, he is jostled and croweded by other candidates who always seem to have some unwonted advantage over him. It is during this period that most candidates drop out; those who persist despite its disappointments seldom fall to achieve their goal. Then a few weeks later comes what might he called the 'tried stage.' The candidate passes through a period of physical and mental exhaustion, and again he is liable to become discouraged though not nearly so prone to give up struggle...
...Tokyo Beggars' Association promulgated, recently, a system of "begging in relays" whereby the average begging day will be reduced to three hours and much duplication of effort eliminated. The sum of 70 yen per month ($35) was mentioned and denounced as the record of certain notorious renegades who persist in begging steadily...
...your best teachers here, whose teaching you will value most highly in later years, will be found among those who are catalogued as students. We welcome you who come from other lands precisely because you come in the double capacity of student and teacher. If any such distinction must persist, I wish there were a third class of our members who were a third class of our members who were not denominated professors in the sense of having prescribed "courses" to teach, and who were not listed as students having prescribed "courses" to take. I should like to think...
...acquittal of bootlegger Remus, seem a perfect justification of Governor Smith's plan for a board of criminologists and psychiatrists who might make disposal of all convicted criminals. It would remove the perplexing scientific problems from the hands of ignorant juries, and yet the dangerous tendency towards leniency would persist as the experts became bogged in the theories of behaviorism. Thus, it is disconcerting but wise, to realize that posterity too will have its laugh at the difficulties contemporary penology is having with a clumsily handled mass of hypotheses...
Lest persons anxious to gain even his disapproving notice should persist in sending greetings, Signor Mussolini informed the Fascist press that some 20,000 messages of this character which he received last year were "burned without being read...