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Near Lake Savant, Ontario, an amorous redskin sang songs to his Indian maiden. Bored, she fled into the woods with a more desirable suitor. The jilted, jealous brave methodically set about firing the entire forest area. Detected by a forest ranger, he retreated; was later arrested by the famed inescapable redshirt police...
...sportive and popular Teuton savant, Count Hermann Keyserling,* has said: "The two contributions of America to world culture are Professor Dewey and Negro jazz...
...annual report to the directors of Harvard University, considers the various high points of college and high school education unprejudicedly and in a manner which only one with a scope as is his could attempt. Another vast field for intellectual advancement which is very favorably considered by this eminent savant is that of self-education. In late years educators seem to have come to the conclusion both from experiment and experience that education acquired by one's own seeking, particularly along some special line of interest, is not only much more quickly apprehended but also more readily retained. Another point...
...college preceptors visiting London under the auspices of the Art Trust Guild of Chicago. Sir Samuel Chapman, M. P., and Lady Astor enacted, during a recess of the House, the respective roles of a mock-Speaker and a mock-Clydside Laborite extremist. "Attaboy!" shouted many a U. S. savant as the Right Honorable Lady refused to desist from her ex tempore harangue on War debts when called to order by "Speaker" Chapman. Eventually she subsided as her fellow M. P.'s trooped back into the House. Later the Speaker of the House testily announced that Sir Samuel...
...fell shortest. With invincible puerility it secured from some 24 writers-five of them widely famed-lists of "their personal choice of the immortal dozen" writers casually alluded to by Kipling. Homer and Shakespeare were well spoken of by most of the 24; though Shakespeare escaped mention by Dutch savant-to-tiny-tots Van Loon. The entire vapidity, occupying over two full columns, failed of that success in puffing the Herald Tribune's book section achieved by Mrs. Ogden Reid, able wife of its publisher, at her persistent "literary teas" to authors, publishers, publicists...