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Simultaneously with Dr. Haldane's exoneration by a benchful of distinguished gentlemen, the public-school teachers of Newport, Ky., were ordered by the local board of education to see that the lower hems of their skirts soared no higher than eleven inches (lower middle calf) from the ground, that their elbows were at all times covered decently. A mothers' club had protested that shorter skirts and nude elbows distracted their progeny from salubrious concentration upon their studies...
...than in 1921; that 11 new teachers' colleges had opened, making 382 in all the U. S.; said that, taking the average training period of all these institutions as two years, only 126,874 recruits annually for six years would be necessary to fill or refill all the public-school teaching positions in the U. S., which now number 742,172; said that in the past two years or so there had been, in all, 418,533 recruits (i. e., students enrolled), or in other words, that teachers were being trained almost twice as fast as they were needed...
...widely-advertised "movie". And if historically accurate films are produced with the proper regard for dramatic effectiveness, as are those being prepared under the Yale authorities, they will not be shunned as "educational"; and the impressions left will be far more vivid and lasting than those created by any public-school history one can think...
...roughness of the game of foot-ball often engages the attention of the English press, and the game is generally severely criticised by them. But the Illustrated London News says of it: "The game of foot-ball has been wisely approved by the almost unanimous verdict of English public-school men, masters, boys and 'old boys,' as the best of disciplinary sports and pastimes with a view to the improvement of the mind - that is to say, the will and spirit, which does not grow strong by book-learning - as much as to that of bodily strength and vigor...