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Nobody has ever found anything seriously wrong with Maestri's administration. Federal investigators have raked over his record without finding a trace of the graft that sent most of Huey Long's inheritors (including ex-Governor Leche) to the penitentiary. Since he took office five years ago, he has pulled New Orleans out of bankruptcy, put its finances on a cash basis, cut $20,000,000 from its debt. Like the Kingfish, Maestri is smart. His friends dabble in rackets to their hearts' content, but Maestri apparently keeps his hands clean. "Let the other guys have that...
Sirs: The news that Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado was called off for patriotic reasons surprised me mightily. In the first place it has no trace of Japanese or pseudo-Japanese music except the chorus Miya Sama, Miya Sama. ... In the second place, the whole opera is exceedingly offensive to all Japanese because of its flippant treatment of their divine Mikado. . . . So let's not deprive ourselves of some fine entertainment and a chance to insult the Japs. . . . J. C. THOMPSON Borinquen Field...
Such exercises are worse than useless, many modern teachers believe, because 1) in real life most computations involve numbers under 100, 2) pupils can spend their time more profitably checking simpler computations, learning how to trace and correct their errors, 3) they need to learn the principle of "approximation": i.e., that perfect accuracy in any measurement is an unattainable ideal. Heaviest charge modern teachers lay against traditional math teaching is that its artificial exercises fail to teach pupils how to solve practical problems...
...best it is the agency whereby a nation's minds are able to communicate with its people. Little, Brown's conservatism does not mean editorial stuffiness, but a high sense of a permanent intellectual function. Says the firm's centennial booklet, with no trace of self-consciousness: "Democracy will survive in America and with it Little, Brown...
...occasion like the Ball gives them a chance to combine their newfound interest with pleasure. As if getting the feel of South American life by learning the rhumba were not enough they will find themselves in the august company of practically every senor and senorita in Boston with a trace of Spanish blood in his or her veins...