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...need not search far to explain this American shortcoming. Europe stressing social classes permits fewer men to call themselves educated while America educates the mass and not a class. It is the very essays of the American educational experiment that a vast number of students should be raised as a whole to a common level of intelligence...
Cowles to Explain Pictures...
Coach Harry Cowles of the University tennis team will be on the platform to explain the strokes of the stars...
...Paris, "Antoine the Knife Thrower," notorious apaché, was persuaded by the police to explain how he had managed to erase from his chest two gorgeous tattooed designs seen upon him when last arrested. Sepia, charcoal and cinnabar bite deep. Science has failed to discover how to blench their mordant effects. Antoine's recipe, reluctantly yielded: pour concentrated tannic acid upon the illuminated parts, inject it into the skin by close punctures with needles, rub lightly over with a crayon of silver nitrate. With the thick black scab, off comes the tattooing...
...statistics released yesterday by the committee on admissions seem to be straws pointing toward a definite tendency among candidates for admission toward seeking entrance through the Old Plan of examination. Those undergraduates who remember the gruelling horror of yearly examinations in preparatory school may be at a loss to explain this phenomenon; but the suspicion will arise that this preference for the Old Plan originates in a conviction that, all chances calculated, the Old Plan is the safest bet for admission. By the nature of its mechanics, the Old Plan is undoubtedly better adapted to intensive tutoring methods...