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...course attempting to give an intelligent appreciation of approximately fifteen centuries of the world's most fertile artistic production in less than fifteen weeks must fail. It is not the fault of the instructors who must present this mass of material. In order to include even the outstanding artistic works of this period they are forced to require their students to absorb such a large list of names and facts that it would be impossible to expect any intelligent assimilation or appreciation...
...theme, as when he lets his characters wander to Florida in the midst of the land boom. The devotion of page after page to the character development of persons not immediately concerened in the story tends to destroy the proportion of the novel and proves to be its major fault...
...democratic society. "Imagination," she tells us, "is the root of all civilization," and poetry is needed to "exert its imaginative training upon youth." With this premise Miss Lowell developes some theories which contribute her share to the educational traditions of her family. She concludes the "there is one great fault in our educational systems today; they teach, but they do not train; and the one faculty without which no other can come to fruition is never really trained at all, for we cannot deny that imagination is forced to strive against adverse circumstances both at home and in school...
Noting this, astronomers at first concluded that the moon was off schedule but subsequent checks on other bodies proved earth to be at fault. Gratifying to clock manufacturers was his statement that the slight variation has some method. Earth would, said Dr. Brown, run fast for a number of years, then lag behind. Sudden changes in rotation rate were noted in 1897 and 1917. Causes for such behavior are unknown...
...field of science, and research. This is without doubt a worthy aim. Wider publicity on scientific study is to be desired. But the fact remains that college sports are spectacular, and college scholarship is not. The emphasis placed by the press on sports is also partly the fault of the universities themselves insofar as they provide elaborate equipment and build large stadiums to satisfy public demand. The News is willing to cooperate with the association in its desire to make the latest discoveries in scientific research the common property of all, but sees little hope that any material success toward...