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...second point that Dr. Snedden brings out is the fact that the College Entrance Board Examinations are extremely inefficient. In their stead he proposes to substitute psychological tests and secondary school records, both methods of judging college candidates that have proven highly successful...
...poorly than were the twenty scrubwomen discharged recently at Harvard, a Yale senior charged in a letter to "The Yale Daily News," printed today. The Harvard scrubwomen were discharged when the Massachusetts Minimum Wage Scale Commission insisted that they should receive not less than 37 cent an hour, in stead of the 35 cents paid to them...
...death it has lain neglected in a safe-deposit vault, some of the papers found only recently in an old clothes hamper. It is with the support of this important collection that Authors Hum and Root have undertaken to deface Wagner's self-portrait, creating in its stead one of a mean, unscrupulous, supremely arrogant person; one which comes as no surprise to the unprejudiced Wagnerian. In so doing they point darkly at the dying lady at Bayreuth, accuse her of influencing Wagner, even of distorting facts herself for the sake of proving Minna a shrewish, ill-bred woman...
Foibles. On the red-white-and-blue cover appeared a photographic example of that familiar roadside sign: THE HOME-STEAD-TOURISTS. The frontispiece was a photograph of the gingerbread fagade of a standard, middleclass, dwelling house of the 'gos. The caption said: "Residence on Elmwood Avenue. Inhabited, according to U. S. Census Statistics, by 4.6 persons...
...piano, has to be played from an extra high stool. He wrote music for it (North Wind, Shadows of a Cathe dral, Shadows of a Spanish Dancer) , devising a system of notation in which raised quarter tones were signified by a sharp-like figure with one vertical crossbar in stead of two, raised three quarter tones with three vertical crossbars; lowered quarter tones by flat-like figures with re versed humps, lowered three quarter tones by double-humped flats. Pianist Earth feels, as do many who have heard him on the Pacific Coast, that this quarter-tone invention provides music...