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Writing, or what is now called writing, is still of course in common use, but the modern tendency seems to be for everyone to ignore the recognized signs which represent the alphabet and to develop a species of short hand, intelligible only to themselves. This is only too evident in present day business life, where practically all correspondence is typewritten. Business men realize the difficulty of interpretting letters written in ordinary long hand, and they save themselves trouble by arranging their transactions through the medium of a typewriter...
...With the reduction in the length of the period of formal teaching, the reading periods should become the logical time for doing some of these reports. Theses and independent work develop the same qualities in a student, and it would perhaps be better therefore, that instructors postpone the written reports until the time comes when free and independent work is in order. Similarly, in the more advanced science courses, the student could be offered liberal opportunity for laboratory problems in the reading periods. The whole of this proposition depends upon the co-operation of professors, for professors may forget that...
Poetry. The vision of a lone pilot in a grey bird (plane) over the yawning Atlantic caused many people to develop poetic ecstasy. The fruits of more than 200 inspirations reached the New York Times; the New York World reported 2% bushels of verse. But at Le Bourget, shortly after Captain Lindbergh landed a fortnight ago, there was a poet who squatted on the flying field to gain first-hand inspiration-like Francis Scott Key writing the Star Spangled Banner. The squatter was sleek Maurice Rostand, son of the late Edmond Rostand.* The results were disappointing, particularly when translated into...
...more as Harvard's graduate manager of athletics. Then to be sure, he goes on into the "wide wide world." into practical professional life as a lawyer but to what ultimate purpose? Only one might say that the boy who had managed the freshman football team should gather maturity, develop judgment build up competence and experience as an executive, and then turn these all back, in 1914 to the service of Harvard's athletics as their graduate treasurer. In that office, until yesterday, he gave for thirteen years his full time, the first man ever to take this task...
...known but that Governor Smith's is notorious; that Governor Ritchie's nomination would raise no "Romanist" bugaboo; that though the Maryland Governor might bring to the Democratic convention only the Maryland delegation, he would none the less be in an excellent strategic position should a deadlock develop over Governor Smith's candidacy...