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...other field events may be viewed in a more rosy light. Mr. Barnett, in forecasting the meet from the Yale standpoint, overlooked the ability of Hyatt to come through in surprising moments in both the broad and the high jumps. And it is on this fact that the Harvard men, who remember Hyatt's winning high jump in the Yale meet last year, pin their hopes for several points. Gerould and Hyatt, then, both of Harvard should take the first two places in the broad jump, while Gifford of Yale will have to content himself with third place...
...From the standpoint of practical politics within the U. S., the passage of the Lodge resolution would be decidedly doubtful, even if it should come to a vote in the Senate. Democrats would be sure to offer the World Court proposal of President Harding or another of their own as a substitute. Neither President Coolidge nor Secretary Hughes were said to have known the details of it before Mr. Lodge presented the plan to the Senate. They would probably act on it, however, if the resolution were approved by the Senate. But approval is decidedly dubious...
...hygiene, the inspiration of exercise, the technique of rest; home-furnishing and color-values; art appreciation and a discriminating taste in literature; the history of music and musicians; psychology in graded lessons; poetry-the very best, but what people really do like, not what they should like from the standpoint of a technician or a modernist ... a university course in training for parenthood, which shall include the mental, moral and physical education of children from earliest infancy through the high school age, to be supplemented by graded reading courses and required theses...
...although if certain dramatists do not stop writing their curiously interesting--I am tempted to say, confoundedly provoking--dramas in that language, it may soon become a required course for the student of the drama. But I must not forget that I am trying to write this from the standpoint of the man in the audience; the man who may be such a student, but who above all, wants to see a "good show...
...physicians coming to the U.S. at this time is assuming the proportions of an avalanche. While only 67 applied for licensure in 1919, there were 371 in 1923, and this year the number is increasing monthly. Among these men are many undesirables, both from the educational and the moral standpoint. Says the A. M. A. Journal: "The country is already oversupplied with physicians, particularly in the large cities, where foreign physicians usually locate...