Word: welling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Psychological tests had to be selected which could be given to literates as well as illiterates, which could be used in group examination, and which could be easily scored. About two million officers and enlisted men were examined, and of these five-tenths percent were recommended for rejection or discharge, and one and two-tenths percent for service organizations and development battalions. Many of these men would have been detected by general observation in the course of time, but the tests furnished objective data at once upon which to base an opinion. They also obviated the necessity of judging...
...fall thereof." And to the music of tinkling glass, takes place the last act of the happiest tragedy ever told, the "Passing of John Barleycorn." The amendment by which prohibition shall be written into the Constitution, has been ratified at last by the necessary number of states. Well may the tragic minority echo the prophetic words attributed to Nat Goodwin when, blindfolded, he was given water to taste. "I don't know what it is but it will never be popular...
John Barleycorn had a long life and served his purpose well,--after his fashion. On cold nights he made us warm; on hot days he made us cool. When we were melancholy, he made us gay; when we were gay, he made us melancholy--the next morning...
...Social Service Committee of Phillips Brooks House has been fortunate in securing Mayor Peters, of Boston, who is obviously well acquainted, with the merits of this work, as a speaker at its meeting tonight. Charles F. Ernst, former head of South Bay Union, one of the foremost organizations of its kind in Boston, will also be present...
...hoped, however, that some of the more flagrant abuses of the old system will be eradicated when intercollegiate contests are resumed. The whole array of paid coaches, trainers, scouts, and other attendants ought to be cut down considerably and the number of games which involve travelling might well be reduced. These things have made college athletics unduly expensive in the past and have given all college sport the taint of semi-professionalism. If the system is not to be reformed, it should at least be improved. Boston Herald...