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...years ago the high cost of laying down six miles of boards and the increasing upkeep necessary for the renewal of wornout planks had made the annual expense almost prohibitive...
Although in many respects unique, this happy interest in celestial affairs at Galileo is but typical of the modern trend in American secondary education. Everywhere the old and wornout standards are being stripped away. The little red schoolhouse has given place to an imposing edifice in brick, equipped with swimming pools, hot lunch counters, and the latest thing in classroom furniture. Tedious studies have been sugared over by electric maps, bolls, lantern shows, and similar kindergarten bric-a-brac. Latin and Greek, classic burden to the juvenile scholar's soul, are dying slowly away. After all, they are dead languages...
...American feminine element has an important viewpoint; we must address ourselves particularly to it. ... It is vital that young, good-looking and active speakers be sent to the United States instead of unhealthy, decrepit, tired, feverish, wornout, coughing and trembling ancients bound into frock coats. These have to be put to bed upon their arrival with hot water bottles at their feet, have to be awakened just in time for a conference, and when rushed to a station thousands of precautions have to be taken. That is why France is pictured as a tired, worn-out country...
...recent years the high cost of laying down six miles of boards and the increasing upkeep necessary for the renewal of wornout planks has made the annual expense almost prohibitive. Authorities decided to macadamize the paths when they found that the funds spent on temporary walks would in ten years pay for the cost of cementing all walks...
...presentation of plays never before given in this country has been merely the traditional policy of the club. And oddly enough, the CRIMSON in the past has repeatedly attacked this policy as wornout, antiquated--as an obstacle to any worth-while accomplishment. Yet the editor now "regrets the present step not only because it is abandoning a tried and sure program, but because the new attitude is so entirely unworthy of the former...