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...remedy is almost as self-evident as the evil. Sot a day when probation begins for each period, and-notify every one at the same time, printing on a card the corresponding date when probation would end provided the marks were sat is factory. Special cases might be brought up prior to the "probation" meeting of the Administrative Board and then be held over to take effect the same day. No one wants to find the Office an inexorable machine, but not a few of the sufferers under the present system would be willing to forego some individual attention...
...Miss Glaspell wisely refrains from urging it to an extreme. She is satisfied with pointing out the justice of her case, admitting frankly that our present social and educational conditions cannot be stretched overnight to conform to all this. The conscientious objector, the "radical" professor--these our hard-headed, "sot-in-its-ways" democracy cannot at once accept into its colleges. There must be time for growth and advancement; but meanwhile it does no harm to learn our meanwhile it does no harm to learn our faults. After all, it is the old story of revolution being rebellion until...
...ingenious proposition in sot forth in a recent letter to the "New York Tribune" by a "professional man of limited income" who desires to obtain "educational insurance" for his one-year-old son. Briefly, he wants a renewable term policy of $5000, to be paid in suitable installments when the boy reaches college age. In case the boy dies before reaching eighteen, no money is to be paid; but if, having started, he fails to complete his college course, the balance due is to be paid to a designated third person twenty-five years from the date of the policy...
...sits down by the river side and scrapes herself with the rough potsherds of disease and violence. Hence the need of a Morgue. Here is brought the man who slipped while working on the quai, and fell in and was drowned. Hither comes the remnant of the drunken sot who reeled from the bridge at midnight and went down with a sullen plunge into the cold, dark waters which rush beneath the granite arches. This man was lured by his deadly enemy to a quiet place at a quiet hour and murdered. Can we not picture the sudden grapple...
...fence is a disappointment, as it cannot be "sot on" without painfully lacerating results...