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...Passed a bill to amend the Pure Food and Drug Act by requiring canned foods below a certain grade to be distinctively labeled, again rejecting theTydings amendment to prohibit insertion of deadly poi- sons in industrial alcohol. ¶ Passed a bill to establish a division of (criminal) identification & information in the Department of Justice. ¶ Passed a bill to create a Bureau of Narcotics in the Treasury Department. ¶ Adopted a joint resolution making July 5 (Saturday) a legal bank holiday in the District of Columbia for this year only. ¶ Passed a bill amending the Federal Farm Loan...
...stampede in India. Here I thought was the longed for material for my verse, so I wrote up the incident in the required ponderous style and sent it in. TIME proved to be my lifesaver, at any rate it seemed to please the Professor. ... I received a gratifying grade for the assignment. So thanks for TIME, we look forward to its coming each week, it is just a little different from all the other periodicals...
...Legislative Appropriation Bill, amended to provide a marble base for the Washington Statue of the late Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon. ¶ Accepted the conference report on a bill to finance Gold Star Mothers' pilgrimages (see p. 13). ¶ Adopted a resolution requiring canned products below a certain grade to be distinctively labeled...
Miserable Smart Children. How to deal with superior-minded school children is a mighty problem for mental hygienists. Dr. Leta Sletter Hollingworth of Columbia defined the smart child's plight. If he is kept in a grade with ordinary children his own age, he does his school work so swiftly that he must idle and daydream, bad habits both. If he is advanced to the grade of his intellectual equals, he is the baby of his class, kept out of games and parties, criticized by his teacher for manual and emotional immaturity. Gifted girls have the special problem of wanting...
Cumulative marking to accomplish its desired aims should be an average made at the end of the year. Only this way can the full credit be given for each day's work. But in such courses as make the April grade dependent on Midyear standing the April examinations are functionless red tape...