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When recent graduates of American colleges begin to apply the cold, clear light of reason to educational problems, deserting fictional pabulum for genuine analysis, the future assumes a brighter aspect. A few are heading towards this end, a stalwart valiant few. In the May Forum Edward C. Aswell offers his theory for what is known as the suicide wave among students. He begins by pointing out that as a wave the number of deaths amounts to no more than the annual tide which has always swept in from the uncharted seas of adolescence, bringing disaster in its wake. Nevertheless, objects...
...Many a stalwart educator, journalist, statesman will advise and guide the Virginia venture, among them Governors Byrd of Virginia and Ritchie of Maryland, Presidents Butler of Columbia University and Chase of the University of North Carolina, Senators Couzens of Michigan and Glass of Virginia, Editors Freeman of the Richmond News-Leader and Fishburne of the Roanoke Times; and Viscountess Astor, British M. P., vivacious daughter of the old Virginia aristocracy...
...galleries were packed with peers; Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England and many another stalwart banker and businessman gave anxious heed to the chancellor's words. The Treasury, he announced, faced a deficit of $182,500,000 on last year's finances; $160,000,000 of this was due to the two strikes. The national expenditures for 1927, Chancellor Churchill estimated at $4,091,950,000; to meet them the country faces new taxes to yield an additional $175,000,000 to $200,000,000. Winebibbers, fag-puffers groaned; increased duties on imported wines, tobacco leaf...
...Germans, Scandinavians, Czechs, and Bohemians settled. Thrifty, industrious races they have made the whole state one enormous farm of stretching fields of grain and pastures. The people, nearly 90% of them of foreign stock, are sturdy, simple. Not only grain and livestock were bred in this fruitful farmland, but stalwart men as well. From Nebraska came William Jennings Bryan, the silver-tongued, foremost popular orator of his day; General John J. Pershing, first in command of the U. S. soldiery in the World War; Charles Bryan, Nebraska's idealist Governor (1923.-25); Gilbert M. Hitchcock, onetime Democratic leader...
...chorus. This chorus is Good. They can ogle an eye, trip a measure, swing a neat ankle and sing. The girls are sylph-like in their gracefulness, like a swarm of butterflies winging o'er a clover field. The boys are stalwart and sturdy, dressed in their 50-pound suits of armor. If they don't always look happy, think how you'd feel black-bottoming in full matching equipment and looking for all the world like a King Arthur Flour...