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...seventeen - hundred children whom Dr. Rothney chose as subjects entered school in 1922 at the approximate age of six, graduating in June 1934. In other words they have been "seeking their own way in the world" for a scant year and a half, yet Dr. Rothney asserts confidently that their records up to the present time vindicate his theory. Just why success in life should depend on a boy's employment or non-employment within two years of graduating from high school, Dr. Rothney did not bother to explain...
...eighteen or nineteen year old Freshman, if he goes to a graduate school, may never complete his formal education until he is twenty-seven, old enough to be Vice President of a First National Bank. Dean Leighton, after proving beyond all argument that seventeen year olds do quite as well as their elders in the Freshman Class, suggests that the age level of graduates from preparatory schools, especially private schools, be lowered...
This alternative between getting Freshmen at an earlier age, and devising a three year course, boils down to a choice between a year at a school and a year at college around the age of seventeen. Which of the two is preferable? Dean Leighton assumes, and proves negatively, that the year at college is preferable at seventeen. If so, it is extremely important that during the next few years Harvard should break down the resistance of the schools, and progressively lower the age level of their graduates. This solution seems far better than cutting the length and fullness...
...Seventeen African animals, three birds and a plant were last fortnight put beyond reach of Man, as the articles of the International Convention for the Protection of the Fauna and Flora of Africa went into effect. Signed in 1933 by nine governments, still awaiting ratification by four (France, Portugal, Italy and Spain), the Convention was wangled by sporting Britain. Britain's African territories, colonies and protectorates promptly ratified it, as did Belgium. Thus a new fauna and flora safety zone was created from Egypt to the Cape, along Africa's "all-British backbone," in the Belgian Congo...
...Seventeen of the 79 singers are new this season and several of them richly deserved their appointments. Philadelphia's Dusolina Giannini has had great success in Germany and Austria. Australian Marjorie Lawrence has been a rage in Paris. Contralto Gertrud Wettergren is a favorite in her native Sweden. Tenor Charles Kullman (Yale, 1924) has done well for himself in Europe, as has Soprano Susanne Fischer of Sutton, W. Va., who will make her Metropolitan debut as Madame Butterfly. Two of the newcomers are Belgians : Tenor René Maison and Basso Hubert Raidich. Baritone Carlo Morelli is a Chilean, Eduard...