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...Church schools will continue to function throughout Spain, being gradually replaced by State schools over a period of years...
...made real to the student can he appreciate the meaning of the mass of information which he is expected to absorb. If the substance of lectures answers questions already in the student's mind, he will be mentally alive, and not passively receptive. It is, accordingly, a prime function of an instructor to raise pertinent questions about his field. As a means to that end nothing could be more effective than rightly organized discussion at weekly or biweekly meetings...
...Universal). The last things any cinemaddict might expect to find in a mythical kingdom like Alvonia are Tony, Tom Mix's piebald cowpony, and Tom Mix himself, in a cowboy hat. But both appear, Mix as headman of an itinerant Wild West Show, Tony as his factotum. The function of Mix and Tony never varies in the cinema; they are an equestrian first-aid kit, a rescue team. This time they rescue the small king of Alvonia (Mickey Rooney) twice: first when the horses of the Wild West stage coach, in which he is getting a free ride...
...Robert Harron points out in today's issue of the H.A.A. News. "There is honor due to the college which deliberately interrupts a winning tradition in football because it feels that its football is not fulfilling the whole function it might fulfill in relation to every undergraduate." Penn State's "winning tradition" was broken, but never in her history have undergraduates shown so much eagerness for athletic participation. Colleges that still fear to sacrifice their "prestige" may look to her example with profit...
...been pointed out by some that economics ought to be made in other departments of the University instead of in the Library, which serves such an essential function. The fact is that cuts have been made in the budgets throughout the University and that the Library must make its own saving. The library budged had to be out ten per cent. A saving of $19,000 was made by reducing the purchases of books and by leaving unfilled vacancies on the staff. A further economy of $16,000 was effected by shortening the when the Library is open. This...