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...this the only educational progress of Dr. Stearns' regime. By "Exeter's educational advances" I judge you refer to the division of the classes into small groups and the addition of enough men to the faculty to permit the teaching of these small groups according to capacity and ambition. Here Andover, though not the leader, has kept pace, a fact that your editorial neglects. There are as yet no round tables at Andover, but the classes in at least two divisions, English and Latin, have already been broken up into groups according to ability, and plans are being made...
...there is a hidden (to me) value here, it occurs to me that you are overlooking many possibilities; that this custom of yours could be broadened and diversified. As you know, undoubtedly, the President-elect is afflicted with infantile paralysis. Why not refer to him as, for instance, "The paralytic Mr. Roosevelt." And look what an opportunity you overlooked before Mr. Edison passed on. He was almost totally deaf. And, still living, is the famous deaf, dumb, and blind woman. I imagine that thousands of people that are material for your literary efforts suffer from halitosis, constipation, athlete...
...refer to that paragraph in your issue of Dec. 12, under the sub-caption "Debts, Disarmament and Davis," of National Affairs, wherein you state...
Governor Moore was at a crippled children's Christmas party when the message reached him. Smilingly said the Governor of New Jersey to the Governor of Georgia: "I wish the Governor of Georgia a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year, and respectfully refer him to the Fuller case...
...Publisher Paul Block. He says he does not plan to retire from all business activity but has no plans for the future. Benjamin Block & Co. was reorganized as Anderson. Block & Co. with Block's son John Horace as a partner. Son Horace's friends refer to him as "old Block's chip...