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...University of Michigan recently graduated an Iowa judge at the age of 62. Columbia University graduated a grandmother aged 71 and Kansas University graduated a man of 81 at its last commencement. . . . The three R's are comparatively easy subjects for the adult mind and none are too old to grasp them. . . . " If there should be one Booker T. Washington, Edison or Lincoln among them, although it cost $20,000,000 to bring him out, it would be well worth the price...
...epidemiological circle of the disease are believed to be the rat, the man, the flea. The flea is the only factor that can be considered seasonally variable. Studies by the Indian Plague Commission and the U. S. Bureau of Entomology have led to the conclusion that the adult flea does not usually live through the Winter in cool climates. The species is prevented from dying out by the ability of the larvae to exist for long periods in a sort of hibernation. Dr. Robertson advocates a flea survey of the cities of the Atlantic Coast to verify the details...
Recognizing that organized religion cannot wash its hands of all responsibility for the events of the last nine years, the Federal Council of Churches called upon 125,000 congregations (20,000,000 adult members) to support President Harding's World Court proposals...
...roar of national and international questions, of taxes and tariffs, the work of the administration, unadvertised and almost unnoticed, has been hard and heroic to keep life in the starving, and its record of having distributed during the two-year tenure over a billion and a half of adult and child rations speaks for itself. But apart from supplying food, it has provided medicine and surgery in just as notable proportions. Fifteen thousand hospitals have been kept in equipment, and the doctors of the unit are leaving behind them enough supplies to last for six months. Typhus and cholera...
...here is another angle to the question, as several editorials have hastened to aver. Compulsion, in and of itself, may be desirable. It cannot be true that the entire adult population of the globe which, in so far as it was educated at all, was educated by compulsion, suffered needlessly. A long line of Little-Red-Schoolhouse-taught Senators and Generals and Presidents answers, No. Discipline is necessary to the human soul, and compulsion is necessary to discipline. It follows that Latin and Greek should be required for the B. A. degree...