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...those who, while young, were dragged kicking and screaming past the Monkey House, and now spend their moments of adult leisure in front of Abercromble and Fitch show-cases, we recommend "Trader Horn", now showing at the Majestic Theater, as an effective tonic. The latest Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer "miracle picture", filmed in the heart of Darkest Africa at the risk of life and bank account, includes superb sound studies of savage men and beasts, who have entered into the spirit of the thing with a gusto which must at times have embarrassed the camera...
...University, not having yet reached that adult stage in which it is quick to profit by mistakes, still seems to be innocent of the dangers of imparting its publicity indiscriminately. One of the chief offenders among the University departments is the Astronomical Observatory...
...boiled Argentine reason for the embargo: an "infant industry" producing Paraguay tea in Argentina has been started in the past few years, gives employment to some 50.000 Argentine laborers. Amid present "depressed conditions" the native and foreign yerba mate industries cannot both flourish. It seems best to knife the adult neighbor to save one's own child...
Recent examinations at the University of California have been employed to prove that the adult mind is superior to the youthful intellect in the acquisition of book learning. Although the results of these tests seem to demonstrate that mature persons absorb knowledge more efficiently, still it should be kept in mind that this condition is not entirely, or perhaps even partially, due to differences in actual ability...
...more years. Again, the difference between a mature person taking an elementary language course in preparation for next summer's trip abroad and a freshman doing the same to appease the powers that be is not a sound basis for conclusions. Viewed fairly, the difference between the adult and the youth is more often one of intensity of interest and seriousness of purpose than of mental aptitude...