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...applied to elementary education, has been in use for centuries by churches and by despotic governments which have become self-perpetuating through this method of withholding original ideas from their subjects. Dr. Counts would apparently apply his principle to democracy and, at an early age, force an implicit trust therein on the nation's youth. This method of teaching may prolong the life of an institution, but it does not lead to true thinking, a more worthy object of education...
...interpretation of the principle role in "Handy Man", a thoroughly enjoyable comedy of his own creation now playing at the Copley Theatre. Mr. Powers' charm results chiefly from his native naturalness and simplicity. One cannot help feeling that he is the same off the stage as on it; therein lies his appeal...
...streets of Dharmsi. Fifteen Hindus were killed, eight Moslems.* Moslems are fiercely proud that in the whole world there are 209,020,000 Moslems compared to 206,900,000 Protestants. Moslems agree with Protestants that God created the world in six days, created a garden of paradise and placed therein the man whom God called "Adam." But in India Moslems despise Hindus, despise Hindu beliefs in a Multitude of Gods, and fight with Hindus in and out of season. Every Moslem must worship God five times every day, but by the end of Ramadan with its intensive worship he feels...
Focus of the Senators' interest was the Bull Market and the 1929 Crash, with particular reference to parts played therein by banks and the Reserve. Most of the Committee's findings were ancient history to the investor who had lost his shirt. But bankers throughout the land perused the report carefully because they knew it would serve as a working text for bank legislation yet to be framed by the Committee. Buried under piles of financial statistics were these general conclusions...
...home, nine seniors, thirty-five juniors and thirty-three sophomores have preferred to hire private houses in which they can live in small groups by themselves. To permit them to do so has been thought wiser than to attach to the Houses any sense of compulsion, or make residence therein other than a privilege...