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...wrong to assume" that, loss of hair benefits the intellect. Famine. Sir Daniel Hall demonstrated the waste, in food-units, of lands planted with hops and grapes, but added: "A race that cuts out alcohol in order to multiply is the permanent slave type, destined to function like the worker bees." The burthen of his remarks was the old scare that the world's food supply will some day fall far short of its population. Childhood Memories. Compose yourself, be seated with pencil and paper, write down every thought that occurs to you for two hours. Do this several...
...they turned away still worried, depressed, edgy. At last their parents spotted a paragraph in the newspapers: "Grading of College Applicants Delayed. . . ." Their tension remained, but the 11,000 at least understood that the College Entrance Examination Board had not forgotten them, that it was delayed in its terrible function of correcting the nervously scribbled "books" of 22,000 would-be matriculants to Vassar, Smith, Princeton, Yale, Wellesley, Harvard, etc., owing to the facts: that the scribbling was not finished until June 21; that the 700 teachers, who correct the papers at a cost of about...
...months ago Dillon's agents had integrated the units of the German combination to make them function as a single concern. The refinancing-$60,000,000-he would supply as soon as the reorganization documents were perfected. Two weeks ago these were so near ready that he loaned the Thyssen people $5,000,000 for working capital...
...defects of much of our teaching and especially of the lecture system is that this part of the function of education is to a great degree lost from sight. An improvement in our examination system which will measure the grasp of a whole subject is, I believe the most serious advance that can be made in American education today...
TIME'S great regret is that the performance of its sole function of universal reporter occasionally brings pain to a subscriber. The article, essence of which was reported, was for many reasons (its effrontery not least) news...