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...Aswell '26 has written certain of his views on education for the November issue of the "Forum". They are interesting, intelligent, and, to all who are vitally concerned with American education, vastly suggestive. Yet like most of the views of both young and old advocates of educational reform, they smack too much of the general and too much of the arbitrary...
...print such articles as those about horses killed in making a German movie, or the little Negro children playing funeral, or the drowning of a Russian Jew at Coney Island? They are surely not of national interest and to me they smack strongly of the sensationalism of Hearst. They are merely gruesome incidents that disclose the morbid mind of a pig sticker delighting in his superb ability to portray the horrible...
...passed. Then a cramp took hold of his belly but he rubbed it away. He ate some lumps of sugar dipped in brandy. Once a wave swept him off into the darkness (he left Gris-Nez, France, at 8:27 P. M.) and he did not sight the smack again for 15 minutes. As he reached shallow water (at 7:30) two Frenchmen, capering with joy, rushed into the surf with all their clothes on. A woman thrust a white rose into his hand. He was going back, he said, to the bakery business...
Early one morning last week a fishing smack trailed by a rowboat -routine indications of a channel swimmer-appeared in St. Margaret's Bay, England. As they crept toward shore a little Frenchman, perhaps the swimmer's trainer, was seen gesticulating in the bow of the rowboat. He seemed afraid that his aspirant would fail in the last 200 yards and kept shouting, "Think of your mother. Think of your father. Think of your wife." The man in the water, who was thinking of a double whisky, swam sturdily...
Across the path of the still speeding dolphin a Danish sailboat tacked, jiggled. Like a blunt-nosed swordfish the torpedo punctured the sail boat's hull, churned and frothed with the expiring might of its compressed air, was carried to the bottom as the relatively worthless fishing smack sank...