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Last week Col. Mann emerged from a Savannah, Ga. meeting of disgruntled Republicans with a direct challenge to the Hoover administration. He referred to the President's patronage committee as "designing political hijackers" and "an interloping element of carpetbaggers." He proclaimed the purpose of his own "noble band": to manage the affairs of the G. O. P., South, without interference; to see that the 1932 Republican National Convention shall have "a solid delegation [from the South] uncontested and uninstructed...
...motto of this society might be: "We consider the honor of having been selected for the Army a sufficient reward." I think that such a society could recruit hundreds of thousands from among the non-gold-bricking element of the late...
This study, then, lacks that breadth and temperance which made Willard Huntington Wright's "The Man of Promise" worth a second printing. It is too hysterical for repetition. Sincerity is the only positive element which stands forth as a distinctive mark of the author. The adventures of Lewis are true to form, the duality of imagination and action is developed along the usual lines. The title, and the use of the obelisk as a symbol, have only a tenuous bond with the solid flesh of the story. The sincerity of the narration and the freedom from sophisticated or psychological patter...
...problem of transition from secondary school to college doubtless the most important element is the adjustment of the individual to a new environment, a different routine, and in most cases a greater freedom of decision and action. The latter is likely to be regarded as a liberation from a more restricted past rather than as an opportunity and a responsibility for a permanently satisfying future. I would emphasize this the more because I have neither space nor qualification to elaborate upon it. My contribution to the discussion is better confined to another element, the relation between the curriculum of secondary...
...speaking of cooperation between school and college I have not meant to overlook the more vital element of cooperation on the part of the student. The theory that a subject is good for a boy because it is hard and distasteful has long been discredited. The subjects which are difficult and abstract should indeed be taught in as interesting a manner as possible; and the boy whose inaptitude for them has been clearly demonstrated should not be forced to continue. But the modicum of truth remains that progress does not regularly take place along the line of least resistance. Unless...