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Northwestern University announces apparently with some pride that it will enroll next fall six youthful prodigies between the ages of thirteen and fifteen. Who have met all the requirements for admission this projected establishment of a "mental hothouse" to train precocious young boys and ripen them into geniuses may seem alluring to such students, but will scarcely command the unqualified approval of educators...
What might have been a serious rift in the plans for celebrating the Bicentennial of the birth of George Washington developed in Manhattan last week. Thirteen U. S. painters last April agreed to paint 14 murals, illustrating crucial moments in Washington's career.? These big paintings were to be exhibited at Washington in the little-known National Gallery at the formal opening of the Bicentennial celebration this month. The painters worked without pay; the Government had appropriated only enough money to cover the actual hanging of the murals. Last week, when the paintings were all but finished, the patriotic...
Ever since the last disarmament conference two years ago peace-lovers throughout the world have looked forward hopefully to this week at Geneva. There at last the League of Nations in a major world conference was to come to grips with the explosive question of armies and their limitation. Thirteen years ago the League of Nations Covenant solemnly promised a reduction of armament in the name of peace. According to most of the greatest orators of Europe, it was a promise made to 8,000,000 slaughtered men, mostly young.* Since 1921 the League, with one preparatory commission after another...
Through the Years, Thirteen years ago Miss Jane Cowl wrote herself a play about an old gentleman whose beauteous bride had been murdered by a thwarted suitor on her wedding night. The old gentleman, growing testier with the years, finds that his niece is in love with the long-dead murderer's son. He almost breaks up this romance, but the War and his advanced age finally thaw his hatred. Thereupon, by a sort of reverse Peter Ibbetson arrangement, his deceased sweetheart comes down a moonbeam, to" take him away with...
...when Finland broke away from Russia and became a Republic, Professor Lucina Hagman was a leading female Dry in the successful fight which set up Finnish Prohibition in 1919. Thirteen years of Prohibition having changed her views, Professor Hagman exclaimed after the polling: "The Finnish home has been saved...