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...regard to question nine, again no answer of the type "x marks the spot where" can be given. In my experience any one of these categories might predominate depending on the interests and abilities of the student. The most important category of all you have omitted, namely that of working on or developing the interests of the student in some theoretical aspect of the field...
Most magnificent was the square (225 x 225 ft.) "Hall of 100 Columns." Artaxerxes completed this, Dr. Herzfeld discovered six months ago. Atop each fluted column was a pair of carved bulls athwart which lay a huge cedar ceiling beam. Windows and niches broke up the long walls; painted carvings enlivened them. Here came satraps, courtiers and tributaries for homage to the curled & perfumed King of Kings. Here probably lived Esther, Queen of Xerxes whom the Old Testament calls Ahasuerus. Here came all-conquering Alexander the Great who, at the urging of one of his women, it is told...
...young boy was taken to one of the larger hospitals of Boston, exhibiting marked evidence of serious mental disturbance, including melancholia. All hope of helping his condition had been practically abandoned, and he was about to be committed to one of the State Institutions. A last-minute X-ray examination of his mouth showed two badly impacted wisdom teeth. Upon their removal the patient made rapid improvement, and returned to his usual occupation...
...Volume X of the Dictionary of American Biography was published, running from J to L, beginning with Soldier William Jasper, who recovered and remounted the shot-down flag in the face of a British bombardment at Fort Sullivan (now Fort Moultrie) in 1776. It ends with Thomas Oliver Larkin, last U. S. consul at Monterey, capital of Mexican California. Between are 674 giants and lesser mortals who made U. S. history. Chief giant: Thomas Jefferson, allotted 37 columns. Others: John Jay, John Paul Jones, Robert Marion LaFollette...
Frisco Jenny (Warner) is a slightly revised version of two earlier Ruth Chatterton pictures-Madame X, in which she was a Parisian prostitute with a small son, and Once a Lady, in which she was a Parisian prostitute with a small daughter. In Frisco Jenny, Ruth Chatterton lives in California and acts as a procuress-first to provide bread and mittens for her small illegitimate whippersnapper; then, from force of habit. While branching out with a profitable bootlegging business, Frisco Jenny keeps a scrapbook of her son's doings. When this scrapbook reveals that he is running for district...