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...order to prevent possible duplication of the April hour examination grade with the cumulative reports due on April 13 for all men leaving College for the armed services, no special April hour mark will be issued, Dean Phelps announced yesterday...
...April grades, which were originally due on March 25, have now been merged into the cumulative reports which are to be handed in to the Records Office by April 13. Thus, instead of making out two separate sets of grade sheets, the cumulative grade alone will suffice for the April mark...
Kennie was kicked out of grade school because, said the principal, "he disrupted the class, asked too many questions, volunteered too many answers." Dean C. William Huntley of Western Reserve, a child psychologist, decided that college was the place for the boy. On I.Q. tests Kennie scores about 182, which means that his "mental age" is about 20. When he entered college last autumn, his fellow students regarded him as a repulsive little smart aleck. Since then he has become less offensive to them. He is still enough of a small boy to raid the sugar jar in the chemistry...
Kennie's intellectual, Russian-born parents are both leftish lawyers. During World War I, Father Wolf defended Eugene Debs and other "seditious" characters. Little Kennie first amazed his parents at four months-by speaking a whole sentence. Just after his first birthday he tackled a first-grade reader. When he was 22 months old, his mother heard a Liszt air coming from downstairs. She thought Kennie had started the player piano, but she found the baby pounding out the melody himself...
Synthetic Snacks. British scientists have evolved a synthetic, laboratory-made food called turula utilis ("useful cells"). Said Britain's Department of Scientific & Industrial Research last fortnight: "Our process makes it possible to manufacture B vitamins and high-grade protein in hours rather than the months it would take to produce meat." Turula is a yeast, not of the baking or brewing varieties, grown by germ culture methods in sugar or molasses. It may be served as a soup, powder, flake or paste, may be sprinkled on porridge, spread on bread, mixed with other foods. Its flavor is cautiously described...