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...paragraph, while their teachers endeavor to muddle them by conversing loudly. Later the class lasts longer-15 minutes for study, 15 for answers-with harder work to do: mathematical examples, psalms or poetry to be learned, a picture to be gazed at. The distractions get worse & worse: a vacuum cleaner buzzing, an alarm clock, a phonograph record...
Training to defend one's country has always been part of a gentleman's education, a citizen's privilege. There is just as great a distinction between a Reserve Officer's Commission and a job as Letter Carrier, Fireman, Dog Catcher, or Street Cleaner, as there is between a professor of Greek literature and the proprietor of a Greek restaurant; or as between an architect and a brick-layer. The mere wearing of a uniform is no sign of boorishness, nor is it the disgraceful badge of submission to a system. In fact, the season is approaching when even...
Died. William H. Hoover, 82, philanthropist, founder and board chairman, of Hoover Co. (vacuum cleaners); after a short illness; in Canton, Ohio. His eldest son, Herbert W. (no kin to Herbert Clark Hoover), is president of the concern. Founder Hoover developed the vacuum cleaner from a friction sweeping device invented by a Cleveland janitor who, having asthma, hated dust...
...Yale is a pretty good place. The hopes of America might just as well center here. If politics ever get cleaner, and if business ever gets over depression, look for the Yale men. A Yale fraternity is about the best breeding ground in the world for politicians. Take the Record, or even the Lit, the football managership, the Laundry, the Wood Agency, or even the News for future captains of industry. And as for bond salesman-why do you think they built the Yale Bowl...
...President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey, for his exemplary stock farm at Angora, from Manhattan sailed six U. S. pedigreed cows, two bulls, four heifers, gifts from President Wilfred Washington Fry of N. W. Ayer & Co. Hoover of (advertising), Hoover President Vacuum Herbert Cleaner W. Co., Chainstoreman James Cash Penney...