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...where he was sent to prepare for an Oxford Scholarship, he spent his time fighting fights that were seldom finished, playing boy's sort of games, and remaining an "unscionable time in one class". This course of life did not lead to a scholarship; and at the age of seventeen, the had went to work for a bookseller in Paternoster Row at twenty pounds a year. In these days every shilling he had went into theatre tickets; and he dreamed of being a dramatic critic. But the following year his career was definitely set in another direction...
There were seventeen nominees from the class of 1934 and seven from the class...
...Seventeen years later Principal Miller and Dr. Meyer had Dr. Ruth Eldred Fairbank, Johns Hopkins' psychiatrist, see what had become of Locust Point's morons of 1914. What she found she reported last week in Mental Hygiene. She found most of them still living in the neighborhood. All but two of the girls were married. Only five cases of illegitimacy and five cases of prostitution occurred during the 17 years. Three-fourths of the subnormals are supporting themselves. One became a Pro- hibition agent. One "nitwit," who can write only his name, progressed to an inspector...
...Today through Hitler's virtual dictatorship, Germany for the first time in all history is practically united. It is organically united through the substitution of central authority at Berlin in place of local authority in seventeen different states. It is even united in sentiment in the sense that a terrorized minority fears to oppose the triumphant National Socialists...
Northwestern's child prodigies, who were selected in a blaze of glory and then carefully cloaked from vulgar inquiry, have come once more, and in a very fitting manner, to the attention of all. The senior of their number, now seventeen, has just been elected to Phi-Beta Kappa, with a truly prodigious grade average and amid appropriate eclat. Northwestern seems to feel that this vindicates the essential wisdom of her experiment, and even Dr. Flexner declares that he is reminded of his old dream of a prodigy high school in New York...