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...stories are neither very interesting nor very well very written. The editors as well as the authors are to blame for such mistakes as "Charles Dicken's reputation," "a vastly higher strata," the wrong use of "formula" on page 26, and the sudden change of a character's name from Josh to Amos on page 29. Even if the material handed in afforded no fiction with the snap we are accustomed to expect in Advocate stories, care should be taken to avoid such examples of slovenliness...
This inefficiency was recently brought out strikingly in a test applied in the Graduate School of Business Administration. That this incapacity for clear expression should appear so markedly in the Business School, is even more surprising, for only graduates of approved colleges,--men representing the upper strata of mental ability--are accepted. The tests were not difficult. A series of reports was assigned the first-year class in marketing, and each report was turned over to the English department for criticism and correction. The results were astonishing. On the first assignment seventy-nine per cent. failed to write even fair...
...Geological Conference. (Special meeting) "Some Evidence that the Visible Marine Strata are of Shallow Water Origin," by Professor Charles Schuchert, LL.D., in University Museum...
...Raymond, Assistant Professor of Palaeontology, accompanied by Professor Twenhofel of Kansas University, will go to Western Russia and southern Scandinava to study certain of the older sedimentary rock strata in comparison with strata of the same age in this country. Since similar types of animals are found fossilized in European and American rocks, it is possible that Professor Raymond's comparison of the strata will prove that these animals came from Russia and Scandinavia to North America...
That "in a college community there are different strata of intellectual ability and that academic work is a standard for measuring the differences" are the conclusions drawn from the statistics compiled by the Student Council in its investigations as to how all classes of students make use of their time. It has been found that B men and C men on an average spend but little less time each day upon their studies than A men, and therefore it can not be urged that most men do not achieve academic distinction because they do not choose to devote the necessary...