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Examiners encounter a varied set of answers to tests calculated to ascertain the mental ages of the children by means of having them explain various pictures. One, portraying a loving couple with supplies, being paddled down a stream in a canoe was explained as a kidnaping, a picnic, a couple sick of life and about to jump off at Niagara, and just a picture of a boy friend and a girl friend. Loyalty to the family likeness upset one test when it was found that a little girl of fire was insisting that the homely woman in the test...
...abusive treatment." was ordered to pay $150 a month alimony for three years. Last August, Bursar Thalheimer went off on a holiday. During his absence, auditors found discrepancies and inaccuracies in his books, a total shortage of some $4,000. Bowdoin deferred action, hoping its bursar would return and explain. But he stayed missing. Announcing that the shortage is covered by bond, Bowdoin's President Kenneth Charles Morton Sills last week declared Bursar Thalheimer "relieved of his duties...
...active group. The Dunster House group plans to hold a series of after-luncheon open-forum meetings on Thursdays during October in which it will put the question of long-run economic changes up to representatives of the four parties. Glen Trimble, Socialist candidate for State Treasurer, will explain and defend his party's program at the first of these on October 6. J. S. Lawrence '01, a Republican and treasurer of the New England Council, will be quizzed by the Dunsterites the following week. On October 20, LaRue Brown '04, former Assistant Attorney General during the Wilson administration will...
...this latter object was to be attained Governor Roosevelt did not attempt to explain. Said he: "In determining the details it goes without saying that many minds must meet and many persons must work together. . . . Many plans have been advanced. . . . The circumstances are so complex that no man can say with assurance that one particular plan is applicable to all crops. ... It will be my purpose to compose the conflicting elements of these various plans...
...blame and thus tend to rectify the harm already done. Grew also asked that steps be taken to stop the press campaign against the bank. "Count Uchida replied that an investigation is already under way. ..." To incredulous Japanese, National City's Tokyo Branch Manager Daniel Waugh kept explaining: "We took the pictures for advertising purposes! National City wants to advertise the recent industrial developments in Tokyo. Osaka and Kobe. Don't you understand? Such advertising will be for the good of Japan!" "Overzealous Persons." Understanding not one whit, the semi-official Osaka radio station JOBK next day joined...