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...recent mornings and afternoons at home in the National Galleries in London, over ninety thousand people called to admire him. He is now entertaining the invited few in New York and will presently receive the rabble--at $2 a head. His name is Master Buttall--the famous Blue Boy...
...report of the English committee there is much practical sense as well as educational philosophy. If comes cut strongly for humanists studies For "commercial English" if has only quick Gerona remarking that the best thing to do for a boy who means to be a business man is to give him a liberal education. But the great point it makes is that in astute as the vehicle of all education in England is English the opportune for perfecting if some think in the teacher's> work. It is an simple that if seem startling the been way to teach good...
...swoop. Imagine, also, trying to figure the interest at four and three-fourths percent of $19.19 for three months and three days when a month is a thirteenth of a year and twenty-eight days is not divisible by three! And think of the awful rate of the small boy whose birthday falls always on Sunday! No! No! If we decide to steal a march on Dame Nature let us be fair and above board; let the reformers figure out how many days they want in a week, a month, and a year, and then let our scientists devise...
...Angeles, Calif. The latter message was started from the library of the writer and the answer was back in complete form and written out on a radiogram blank in just six and one half minutes. Certainly this was a far cry from the silly little buzzings of the boy of 1912. These young men, veterans of a world war, and the finest operators and radio engineers the world possesses, relayed this particular message from Chicago and Roswell, N. Mex. When the tests were completed, the roar from all of those who had restrained themselves and remained quiet for the test...
...brief resume of the conditions surrounding a boy with any theatrical tallent in present day institutions of learning, Mr. Eaton gave a graphic description of the experiences of the average youthful dramatic enthusiast in his struggle to gain an education along the line of his chosen profession". Troubles for a young creative dramatist begin in the preparatory school", he declared. "There are two reasons why our secondary institutions offer no attraction for such a student. One is the prevailing tendency of all American preparatory schools to 'cut boys to pattern'. Now it can readily be seen what effect an atmosphere...