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...seacoast cities of West Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Lake Worth, Delray, Boynton, Jupiter and Stuart were glutted with wreckage. At Palm Beach many fastidiously designed homes (Stotesbury, Wanamaker, Frazier) became ugly shards of architecture. The seaside Royal Poinciana, famed hostelry of social idlers, was totally wrecked. The Breakers, newer, more substantial, lost the roofs of its north and south wings. But on the seacoast few lives were lost...
...Frank D. Boynton of Ithaca, N. Y., president-elect of the N. E. A. department of superintendence: "President Lowell seems to think that the main function of the American high school is to send its pupils to college. . . . Our objective is not to train a chosen few for higher education, but to prepare all our students for American conditions of life. . . . The, only tests which the colleges use in determining the fitness of a boy are intellectual tests. ... A Leopold or a Loeb could pass them easily...
WALTER C. BOYNTON...
...appointment of a commission to review the Sacco-Vanzetti case, composed of President Lowell, President S. W. Stratton of M. I. T. and former Judge Robert Grant has already brought forth a storm of protest from such prominent men as T. J. Boynton, former attorney general of the Commonwealth and F. A. Goodwin, Registrar of Motor Vehicles. The former declared in an address to the alumni association of the Suffolk Law School that "there is absolutely no need for any fact finding commission in this case" and the latter declared that such action would be "a direct attack...
...denouncing the plan Mr. Boynton went on to say that the appointment is uncalled for because the jury, in the case was a fact-finding body and that at that time the attorneys for the defense were able and fully competent to avail themselves of any opportunity to find errors if they existed. "We are coming to the time", Mr. Boynton went on to say, "when the decisions of our courts and their findings are the subject for mass meetings, as if a case could be handled more intelligently in mass meetings than in a courtroom." The popular petitions...