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...resemblance to the Oxford and Cambridge colleges. By some that resemblance has been welcomed by others it has been condemned. There have been more or less--generally less--weighty arguments adduced for and against a "High table", and similar entertaining but not wholly essential details as to costume and behavior at those functions connected with the problem of combining social converse, "atmosphere" and food into a harmonious whole which shall contribute to the intellectual training of our youth...
...want to do otherwise. A child who is not mentally or physically sick must become "master of himself" when at liberty. Platonically, he has then become disciplined. Parents are assured that Montessori-trained children are not told, ballad-wise: "If you feel like yelling, yell like hell!" Anti-social behavior is anticipated by the second precept, an appeal to the individual "mysterious life-force," curiosity...
...cursing or contumeliously reproaching or exposing to contempt or ridicule the Holy Word of God contained in the Holy Scriptures shall be punished by imprisonment in gaol for not more than one year, or by a fine of not more than $300, and may also be bound to good behavior...
...committee found "no impropriety nor anything open to censure or criticism" in President Hoover's behavior when the law-duty sugar lobby attempted to capitalize his name and his interest through personal connections. But it did consider "particularly reprehensible" the low-duty lobby's effort to stir up hostility to the U. S. in Latin-America...
Before the national three-cushion championship ended in Manhattan last week, Layton had taken a beating from August Kieckhefer. If anyone, talking to Kieckhefer face to face, looks at his left eye, he has a feeling that Kieckhefer is interested in something else. To overcome the behavior of his eye, he shoots left-handed so that he can sight with his right eye. He beat Layton 50 to 38 in 58 innings, but three-cushion championships are decided by total number of games won and lost, and it was Layton and not Kieckhefer who played off in the finals against...