Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Laggard students who flunk and repeat courses cost more to educate than smart ones who pass everything. This is manifestly unfair in a public school-system in which each student should benefit from the same amount of the public funds. W. M. Kern, school superintendent of Walla Walla, Wash., believes that laziness accounts for most failures. Last week he asked his school board to evaluate a high school education, suggested $480, or $30 per course. He would have students who repeat courses pay $30 per repetition. Thus, he said, "no pupil could complain since each ... would have as much money...
...vast red hat, symbol of Cardinals, was bestowed on Mgr. Schuster three days later in public consistory. As the Pope bestowed the hat, he pronounced Mgr. Schuster "elevated to the splendor of the Roman purple." The new Cardinal kissed the papal slipper, hand, cheek. He was in turn embraced by the 25 assembled Cardinals, who touched his cheeks with theirs...
...week by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America of a cinema commission which, instead of trying to weed out the bad, will attempt to find the good-recommend cinema for church programs; dispense cineminformation; encourage films promoting international goodwill; study the relation between the cinema and public welfare...
Died. John Cotton Dana, 72, of Newark, N. J., Librarian of the Newark Public Library, Director of the Newark Museum Association; in Manhattan...
Rallyings. Public officials rallied the people. Said Ernest Amos, State Controller of Florida: "The people have, Samson-like, brought down the temple upon themselves . . . but . . . this is the dark hour just before the dawn...