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...tutors, too, have begun to sense that the firm, confident tone displayed at their conferences is indeed an upward swing in the scholastic cycle, and not a more bull movement. No longer are a tutee's remarks confined to what he can assemble from the pigeon holes of the Encyclopedia Britannica. No longer does he deftly turn the conversation from Elizabethan to contemporary drama, on which he chats in his best demi-tasse manner. No longer...
...were not bad enough to have one's intellect weighed, measured, and neatly pigeon holed at the hands of leering psychologists, two university professors have now undertaken to prove that one's poetic discrimination can be dissected and catalogued in the same way. The test, as set forth in the "New Republic" is simplicity itself. The student is shown a bit of verse by a reputable poet, who may be any one of a number ranging from Mother Goose to Carl Sandberg, and three artistically mutilated versions of the same. If he has a keen discrimination in poetry...
...middleaged. His chief works of fiction are embodied in the ponderous Forsyte Saga, a series of novels, beginning with The Man of Property-published 1906 -dealing with the lives and problems of a typical British family. Among his most talked of plays are The Silver Box, Strife, Justice, The Pigeon, The Skin Game, Loyalties...
...stir. The fliers waited; all was ready. They had made the brief trip from Brough to Kirkwall easily, with a tall wind following them; in Kirkwall the engines had been tuned for the last time, final preparations had been made, even to giving each plane a carrier pigeon. The patrol of U. S. Navy vessels had reached their stations, forming a chain of safety. In Iceland, the natives of tiny villages had erected signs in English to welcome the airmen. On Aug. 2, the fog still lingered, but the three planes took the air, pointing their noses north. Almost immediately...
...Frank A. Vanderlip decided to give a Japanese garden party at Beechwood, Scarborough-on-the- Hudson, for the benefit of Tsuda College, destroyed by the Japanese earthquake. They wanted to invite Secretary Hughes and Ambassador Hani-hara. So they martialed a flock of carrier pigeons and the 102nd Aviation Squadron of the National Guard at Staten Island, to deliver a message to each of these distinguished diplomats. Lieutenant J. Kendrick, of the Aviation Squadron, was equipped with a Curtiss plane-familiarly known as a "Jenny," powered with a 100-horsepower engine and capable of 70 to 75 miles an hour...