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...thereon--but with the other two-thirds I take strenuous issue. Even the class instructor's version often differs with the readers. "Just a difference of opinion between experts," or "Perhaps the reader interpreted the passage in another way--". Perfectly sound explanations, but just where dew that leave my grade? In order to write a perfect paper for next Thursday I must not only write a correct one; in addition I must foresee just 'how the reader will take it." I do not know the gentleman who reads my paper, but I'll wager that, notwithstanding the decisiveness with which...
Among this year's dead 40 were Joseph I. Johnson, 13, of Lafayette, Ind., who shot himself in the abdomen because he could not "make" his grade school team. Another fatality was Coach Ray Pardue. 24, of Statesville, N. C. High School team, cuffed to death by Garfield Jennings, 20, vexed linesman of the Taylorsville, N C. High School, which was playing Statesville High. Almost all the other deaths followed bashings on the football field. Most discussed of the deaths from violence were those of Army's Richard Brinsley Sheridan (TIME, Nov. 2) and Fordham's Cornelius...
...carriers' financial troubles by a series of conferences with organized Labor. Into the New York, New Haven & Hartford's board room marched representatives of 21 railroad unions to ask for: 1) a six-hour day; 2) a billion-dollar U. S. bond issue to eliminate grade crossings; 3) Federal laws for accident indemnity, retirement insurance...
...advanced courses where there are fewer Freshmen and where the students are supposed to have advanced beyond the stage where they need to be accurately checked up in the middle of each term. But the fact remains that the Dean's office gives weight to the hour grades of each student. Accordingly, reasonable care should be taken that the student gets the grade that he deserves...
Cinemactress Dressier's producers have not let her starve, but they have given her major roles which often seem to be bit parts arduously expanded. In Min & Bill, she was proprietress of a low-grade boarding house. Wallace Beery was her star boarder. Largely slapstick comedy, the picture included a six-minute fight between Dressier and Beery in which Cinemactress Dressier threw things, among them a pottie, at Cinemactor Beery. Cinemactress Dressier enjoyed making the fight scenes. When she and Beery were too tired to go on, she rested in a portable bungalow dressing room which...