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Elocution is no longer a major sport in , U. S. schools, but it is still taught and practiced. Teachers still divide up the subject into various branches: viz., recital of poems, original oration, debate, the extemporaneous speech. The latter is always regarded as the most sporting. A boy is handed a slip of paper on which a subject is written such as "Capital Punishment."* For five minutes he is permitted to twitch nervously in his seat while his undernourished brain works feverishly to synthesize all that he has read, been told, suspected about the matter. A bell rings. He marches...
Sirs: TIME is excellent for news ordinarily and we all enjoy it in my family, but we are astonished to find omitted this week both from the Religion and the International departments an event of great significance in the religious world, viz., the visit to this country of the British Congregationalists on their twentieth century good will Pilgrimage. Could you have been privileged to sit at the banquet in the Hotel Astor the night of Friday June 15 and listen to the thrilling addresses so expressive of British-American fellowship and peace made by men like Fred B. Smith...
...Municipal Auditorium once more they heard what Nils Parmann, banker from Oslo, Norway, a new brother, had to say, viz...
...demands the election of one of that faith to the Presidency. I would like to suggest the nomination and like to suggest the nomination and election of one of the really great men of this country, one who in my judgment is best qualified to fill that exalted position, viz,. John W.Davis. H. P. COFER Sumner...
...Little of the University of Michigan advised biological investigators to turn more and more from their habitual and comparatively easy study of insects to the study of mammals. There are, said he, at least five great divisions of genetic problems which are capable of successful investigation in laboratory mammals, viz., the genetic bases for size & growth, fertility & sterility, susceptibility or resistance to disease, lethal action of genes during development, and psychological differences. Studying those fields, investigators might learn the possibility of controlling the ratio between the sexes, of developing resistance to infectious diseases and elimination of hereditary defects, of gaining...