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...deanship of Canterbury Cathedral. (But his salary of more than ?5,000 is greater than a dean's living.) His students admire his strong face and square shoulders (he played football at Marlborough). His fine, sonorous voice commands their rapt attention at every Leaving Address. Like most British schoolmen, Head Beak Alington is a versatile but chiefly intramural scholar. England knows well his "jolly good remarks" on all subjects. Samples: "I believe our taste in some matters is not as good as ihat of other nations, for example our homes, which are exceedingly ugly. . . . No class of Englishmen have...
...their next Governor, Virginians will choose in November between a professor of constitutional law at William & Mary and a professor of psychology at Washington & Lee. Anything but academic will be the campaign because each of these schoolmen will personify a side of a question as large as the political South: Can the Republican party hold or extend locally the gains it made nationally last year when Democrats deserted their ticket...
...days when the great schoolmen of the thirteenth century waged hotly contented theological battles through the monasteries on the number of angles who could dance on the point of a needle or the physical relation of Hell to Heaven the proposed canonization of a pious son of he Church always required the appointment of a "devil's advocate" to take up the verbal cudgels for the unpopular side of the argument. This until the connotation changes, will be much the position of the Conservative wing of the newly formed Harvard Debating Union. The present generation shied at the word conservative...
Plans for a camp of military instruction for New York schoolboys, to be held under the auspices of the National Guard this summer, have been announced by Dr. C. W. Crampton, president of the Schoolmen's Military Corps. The camp will be held at Peekskill from August 9 to September 9, on the state grounds. It will accommodate 1000 boys between the ages of 16 and 19 years...
There will also be a schoolmen's battalion of 300 principals and teachers of New York schools who will be drilled in order that they may instruct the schoolboys next fall under the terms of the Slater bill requiring universal military training in the high schools...