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...rates are based largely on the contention that an additional burden of $35,-000,000 a year was added to their operation expense this fall by (1 the corporate surplus tax, 2 wage increases, 3 increased steel costs, 4 safety measures to comply with State and Federal regulations, 5 grade crossing projects...
...Chancellor Carmichael: The South has so few universities offering first-grade graduate work that many of its best brains go north to study, never to return...
...Buswell found that bad readers get worse 1) the more they read 2) the more firmly fixed their bad habits become. In his group, only 11% of the adults who had stopped school at the sixth grade could read as well as present-day sixth-graders. The professor thereupon set out to invent improved methods of teaching adults to read. Chief advance over the system of Dr. Stella Center at New York University's reading clinic (TIME, Dec. 6), was the use of a motion picture film that flashes successive phrases on a screen, to guide the eyes along...
Among the posteards enclosed in the History I exam books, to be returned with the grade, was one bearing the address "Boylston Hall Library. Cambridge," and another "South Lake Trall, Palm Beach, Florida." The former was got picked with the idea of playing up Boylston Hall as an ideal winter resort, but rather to offer contrast instead...
...other two men in the story, however, are too orthodox to live in complete harmony with such spontaneous unrepresed people. The father, a Dutch banker, tries very hard to be broad-minded, but he can't quite make the grade. The moral behavior of the girl's "uh--friend," as the banker describes him, is the most delightfully surprising of all, even though it may be the hardest to reconcile with the idea of a real, consistent personality...