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Midwestern parents and pedagogues have this autumn managed to raise a new pother, on the strenuous issue: What shall the well-dressed schoolgirl wear...
...series of Persian Letters, the CRIMSON has emphasized the same fundamental defect in the schedule of things which pass current for education. Mirza wrote to his friend Usbek: "My observation convinces me that, in spite of all their pother and noisy activity, few of these young men really know what they are about. Their universal rule seems to be: 'Do something. Get busy. Fill the hour. Make every minute count--never mind what it counts for--and in four years the magic of hustle-bustle will transform us into educated...
...doctrine that comes along is simply "Why not?" Since that disappointing experience I have been in the midst of a mad whirl that has distracted me without giving any clue to the riddle I am trying to solve. My observation convinces me that in spite of all their pother and noisy activity, few of these young men really know what they are about. Their universal rule seems to be: "Do something. Get busy Fill the hour. Make every minute count--never mind what it counts for--and in four years the magic of hustle-bustle will transform us into educated...
...American Mercury for October, W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, Ph.D. (Harvard), one of the leaders of the "new negro" movement, points out the dangers of the tendency now rapidly developing among negro educational institutions to remove them entirely from white control. "America may never know, in the pother of race hate," says this leader of his people, "how much she owes to the fact that up to the present no liberally trained negro has walked into the world who had not in his youth held the hand of a white teacher and friend." This article is a sign...
...necessary to go into a long course of training for the preparation of his antidote before starting the summer campaign. Then he will go forth and gather pebbles for his role of David in the next session of Congress. Doubtless his band will be able to make a great pother in the Senate: but that this will advance Senator La Follette's prospects is far from doubtless...