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Would that my boy showed as much initiative in mathematics as your juvenile correspondent, Richard Wilson, of Davenport, Iowa [TIME, Mar. 15, LETTERS]. But I think Richard is comparing oranges with apples. The rate he quotes from Davenport to Charleston, S. C., is the so-called evening rate. The Union (City?), N. J., man who talked 41 minutes to Charleston evidently used the day rates on a person-to- person call. It makes a difference...
...this is in a high key. It does not strike the lower notes of the practical and precise definition of what such and education for such and such a boy must be. Yet ideals are, not unimportant factors even in modern life. And the educator by his calling is an idealist. To many Mr. Russell's icons have long been gods. To some they are new and quite strange. And it is to them that he addresses his words, even as his lesser contemporary addresses his more violent phrases. Perhaps all such addresses are futile. If they are the philosophy...
...exercising their brains. Forty-two percent of the Junior and Senior classes at Harvard are "candidates for distinction," that is, they are trying for honors under a tutorial system in preference to trying merely to pass under the old system. At present both go along side by side. A boy can study under either system, but that will not be true for long...
...Philadelphia, a boy and a dog played together. The name of the one was Dick McDevitt (six years old)*; the name of the other was Ruff (an Airedale). While they did not actually talk to each other, they had found that by pats, grimaces and tender looks, they could communicate better than much older people. In the daytime the great crinkly dog padded by the side of the boy, whose head barely reached his shoulder; at night he curled at the foot of the boy's bed. Nothing could ever separate them, they thought−but something...
...WISDOM TOOTH-A shrewd and sensitive fantasy about a clerk who suddenly saw himself as a little boy...