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...making this distinction between vocational training and cultural education educators have particularly in mind the American colleges. They desire that the college should be an exclusive institution which shall contain only men who love the Arts and Sciences instead of business and money; where the club-room dominates over the class-room; where a man learns to live instead of to earn money; where the atmosphere is one of poetry and music instead of industry and dollars; in short, where the mind is taught to find peace in spiritual rather than material things...
Spanish moss, which grows in long gray festoons on Southern trees, has no roots and subsists entirely on what it gets from the air. Yet its ashes contain large amounts of sodium, iron, silicon, sulphur, chlorine. Whence these elements? Chlorine, sodium, sulphur may be carried high in the air by ocean spray, and come down in rain. The presence of the iron and silicon is a puzzle.-Dr. Edgar T. Wherry, Dr. Ruth Buchanan, U. S. Department of Agriculture...
...These darts are usually dipped in some irritant?an acid, or "Spanish fly." Or they contain fireworks, to sizzle and pop behind the bull's ears and augment his infuriation...
Herewith are excerpts from letters come to the desks of the editors during the past week. They are selected primarily for the information they contain, cither supplementary to, or corrective of, news previously published in TIME...
Herewith arc excerpts from letters come to the desks of the editors during the past "week. They are selected primarily for the information they contain, either supplementary to, or corrective of, news previously published in TIME...