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...fact that 1, 53, unmarried, wealthy, am sending eight of my young cousins and nephews through school. Two of them are attending Virginia Military Institute, of which I, myself, am a graduate. He stated that I am also rebuilding a church, founded by my great-grandfather, at Big Stone Gap, Va., my home town...
...writer of the communication printed in this column has called to the attention of the University something which is badly needed in the present curriculum. In fact this something is so badly needed that it is strange that the gap has not before this been filled. That the average Englishman is more interested in the government of his country and consequently knows more about it than the average American is a widely accepted fact. Perhaps in recognition of this, educators and prominent men throughout the country are constantly advocating the teaching of citizenship in public schools. They could, therefore, with...
Factories are beginning to work and are striving to make-up for the gap of years of little or no production. The schools, which are now in small crude huts will move within a few weeks into the newly constructed schoolhouses. The cathedral alone has not been rebuilt and the services of the church are still held in temporary improvised buildings...
Adelyn Bushnell, the unfortunate wife whose husband, love, and peace of mind were stolen from her gives an unusually creditable performance. It is her heart-felt sincerity in the last act that fills the rather large gap left when Shipman's mortar gives out. Forced at times by the author to speak like an oracle before the judgement of the wicked, she does it without the appearance of incongruity that might be expected. Walter Gilbert, her husband is alternately the victim of the pity and derision of the others and on the whole manages to bear it well...
...practical application. The inexpertness of the men of so-called "pure science" in making the fruits of their labor useful to civilization has resulted in parallel, but until very recently, widely separated growths of Industry and Science; and even now the engineer, who is supposed to bridge the gap, reaches from the side Industry only part way to the edges of Science. It is true that "practical" men have traditionally, at least, scorned the aid of the theorists, for being practical, they had to be shown. And if the theorists did not effect any kind of union with commerce...