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There is nothing startlingly original in "The Cat and the Canary." Its originality lies chiefly in the fact that not a single one of the hackneyed, conventional thriller devices is omitted. If we could sit back coldly and explain to those in the few rows within whispering distance that, technically speaking, it is not a very good play, we might not be so very far wrong. Despite our utmost efforts, however, we find ourselves constantly on the edge of our seats, on the very verge of yelling to the heroine in distress, "Hey! Look behind you!" So what...
Requests have been coming to the University from business schools throughout the country for an explanation of the case system schools. Professor David, who was the originator of the case system in teaching retail store management and insurance banking, has therefore been asked to explain his method at the conference...
...acquiring that knowledge. The general examination is a test not of the student's memory of more facts but of his ability to explain and correlate facts...
...Advocate very graciously gave them a copy. Just as trouble seemed to be brewing, an editor burst in, and, sizing up the situation, hastened to explain matters. An appeal was made to the intellectual capacities of the policemen, and it was confidentially explained that the parody was offered as a literary parody for cultured people...
...Last week, the issue was joined. Mr. Van Patten told newspapermen that the trial would bring out awful revelations concerning the Democratic Party, would show how Jesse H. Jones (originally a McAdoo man) had knifed the campaign, would explain why Messrs. Davis and Bryan were not elected. "He [Jones]," said Van Patten, "balled up the campaign more than any other man. He is the man I want to get my hands...