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The result is the present situation, in which the cat chases his own tail. Failing to get the requisite marks in the first place, the student is given an extra handicap in the shape of probation and told to produce even higher grades than before. While the paternal system exists...
Prussian prisoners are provided with only one bath in four weeks; they are allowed a weekly ration of only 125 grams of meat; saccharine they are given for sugar; their linen is changed but fortnightly. All this is to economize. Berlin journals said it was short-sighted and that prisoners...
At a time when, as the Yale News points out, education is on the theshold of its greatest test in history, in the course of which it must either fail completely or prove that it can be of benefit not, as in the past to a select group, but to...
STIFFS?Melbourne Garahan?Seltzer ($2.00). If a goodly number of books of fiction are as dull as fact, here is a book of fact?or so the publishers claim it to be?that is as romantic as fiction. It is impossible to give away the plot, because there is nothing...
Cabinet. After having been charged to form a Cabinet by the King, Mr. Macdonald (on the afternoon of the same day) submitted the list of Ministers to His Majesty, who gave his formal approval. The list showed that the new Premier had made a wise and far-sighted selection, designed...