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...venerable savants of the French Academy decided to admit the following Anglo-Saxon sporting terms into the French language: challenge, camping, bookmaker, cricket, Boy Scout, champion, bridge. The words canter, crack and crawl were rejected...
...Selina's heart is mended by the return of Roelf Pool, onetime Dutch boy she used to teach in High Prairie, now a famed artist, who recognizes in her the one who started him on his career. And Dirk discovers that he is really in love with Dallas O'Mara, girl artist, and- realizing that they two don't live in the same world-is led to question (bitterly) his ostensibly shining success...
Edna Ferber's So Big is an unusually fine novel. A portrait of a boy and his mother, with a finely sketched background of Chicago, and a fundamental theme which shows the development of various attitudes toward the beauty of life-it stands out as unforgettable...
Concerning the individual points in the plan little can be offered but commendation. The clause that forbids the carrying of entrance conditions will work good to both undergraduate and office. The clause insisting that the record of a boy to be admitted without examinations must conform in every respect to the prescriptions of the New Plan is essential for fairness and uniformity. The slight gain in strength for the classics may be calculated almost to bring tears of gratitude to the eyes of those who believe that no education is complete without them...
...Harvard, so that the Freshman at the English University at once mixes with his whole college and knows nearly all his fellow undergraduates in short order. A logical explanation to this seems to appear in the very nature of that small college itself. Before "going up" to Oxford a boy has a few less than thirty colleges to chose from and it is obvious that these colleges vary considerably in their makeup. An individual goes to a college, if he can, wherein he thinks he will be congenial, or which appeals to his particular tastes. Consequently there are likely...