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...American colleges and universities increased from about 110,000 in 1899-1900 to about 900,000 in 1927-8. The number of institutions with a minimum endowment of $2,000,000 is about 100. If the American people are not the best educated in the world, certainly the fault is not due to a lack of facilities. The states have been most liberal, and wealthy Americans, from John D. Rockefeller down, have lavished millions on the intellectual training of our boys and girls...
Loose, rambling construction is the picture's only fault. The short features, which will remain without much change for the two weeks' run, are a curious conglomeration with good ideas weakened by being too drawn out. The first is a novelty orchestra. Then follows an admirable feature, the Quartet from "Rigoletto", with Gigli and Marion Talley. Krazy Kat, is the next. The last short has a catchy tune spoiled by a poor story and overacting...
...committee room broke into laughter when he said that the I. C. C. had never attempted to regulate his telephone companies because nobody had ever complained about their rates. Declared he: "It's discouraging to be found fault with on that account. We try to run our company business so that no complaints will be filed against us and we hoped we had succeeded in accomplishing something in making regulation of our rates unnecessary...
...read excited some pre-examination consternation. Moreover, in at least one section, progress had been so slow in the regular text that during the last weeks of the term assignments were raised from three chapters a week to three and four chapters a meeting. Under these circumstances, through no fault of the student, proper review for the examination was difficult. Such conditions were unusual rather than typical, but the mere fact that they existed at all is indicative of inefficiency somewhere. The all-importance of the approaching final examinations makes it imperative that some remedy be effected in the very...
After incurring a disproportionate amount of comment, the University has at last condescended to clarify their position with regard to the recent Scrub Woman debacle. Admittedly the affair has received more publicity than its importance would merit, but the fault lies not so much with the newspapers as with the officials in charge of the matter. Either these gentlemen are firm believers in the adage that speech is silver and silence golden or that little boys should be seen and not heard. At all events the motives and intentions in this instance have been distorted far beyond the original design...