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...MARCH OF JAPAN-Edgar Lajtha-Stokes ($3). A useful primer on still-unfamiliar Japan, her social, political and economic paradoxes, by an observant Hungarian journalist. Illustrated with photographs...
Well calculated to turn Ann Marsters, whose efforts were demonstrated in her "Primer for Harvard students", green with envy and other ailments, is the widely heralded approach of the "Social Register of Harvardmen...
...next few weeks the advertisement will run in other sections of the U. S., will appear just once in some 400 newspapers. Magazines may be included later. Meantime the first insertions brought a "gratifying" number of requests for the booklet, a 40-page primer of Stock Exchange history, policy and practice illustrated with scenes from the Floor and service departments. The booklet was prepared to be passed out to visitors and to satisfy unsolicited demands for simple explanations of the stockmarket's how & why. Most illuminating fact: each of the Pilgrim Fathers (arriving on the Mayflower in 1620) owned...
Featuring prominently a portrait of her own little self, the much advertised "Ann Marsters' Primer for Harvard Students" began its run yesterday in the Sunday Advertiser. Replete with sage advice on the advisability of passing the swimming test, and recommending those who wish to be different not to steal the Memorial Hall clapper, Miss Marster's article succeeded in filling a rather dull page with type, and little more. A large photograph of our men "studying" showed two reading magazines, and two absorbing learning from empty loose-leaf notebook covers. And the circulation of the Advertiser in Harvard Square remained...
...Ohio youth, William Holmes McGuffey, son of a Scotch-Irish Indian fighter from Pennsylvania, never set eyes on the two books which were the Eclectic Readers' precursors-the didactic Webster Blue Back Speller and the holy, fearsome New England Primer. He worked on his father's farm, did not go to school until he was 16. When Father McGuffey hacked a five-mile road through the forest to Youngstown, Ohio, Son William went there to study Latin with a clergyman. One day his devout mother knelt in her yard to pray that Son William might be educated...