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...shock-haired, Canadian-born Dr. Harold Pascoe Fawcett. Dr. Fawcett starts with an ex planation of the principles of Euclidean geometry, goes on to show his students that every conclusion depends on assumptions and definitions, and, when correct, follows a concise mathematical pattern. His pupils then analyze speeches, political plat forms, advertising, riddle them full of holes. Not only did Dr. Fawcett's pupils rate high er than other high-school youngsters in tests on reasoning ability, but they got the best marks in the State in plane geometry. The authors proudly display in their book the slogan over...
When a foreigner is promoted over his head to the position of plat foreman, Frank joins the legion. Once he becomes involved the cannot back out try as he may. Disgusted and frightened, he goes from bad to worse, losing first his wife and then every vestige of self-respect. Finally, tortured almost to madness, he shoots his best friend to whom he has blurted out his connection with the Legion...
Last week Olympic track & field stars, including Jesse Owens who was considering a $40,000 vaudeville offer from Comedian Eddie Cantor, had scattered to compete in exhibition meets at London and elsewhere. Meanwhile, at Berlin, swimming was the plat du jour...
...advise her to take up swimming when she was 11. She began high diving a year or so ago, won the women's national championship in her second try for it last week. Because her specialty is a two-and-a-half forward somersault from the 24-ft. plat- form, which no other girl in the world can do, she was handicapped in the Olympic tryouts three days later because the Olympic diving program rewards perfection of execution rather than quantity of varia- tions. Needing a third place or better to make the team, the best she could...
Bumptious Geologist Kirtley Fletcher Mather had been speaking on "The Twilight of Democracy" at the opening of an adult education centre. Among the adults present was Representative Thomas Dorgan, author of the Massachusetts teachers' oath law. In the course of a hot plat-form-to-floor argument, Professor Mather called the law unconstitutional, stoutly announced he would sign no oath. By the time Dr. Conant reached Cambridge, Professor Mather and a quickly rallied bloc of the faculty were champing to carry the case to the Supreme Court...