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...chattering youngsters were bussing to the Brook Park Elementary School, across the road from Cleveland's Airport. Some peered out of the frosty windows at the light snow on Sheldon Road. Others made last-minute efforts at homework. The bus stopped at a grade crossing on the New York Central R. R. while a passenger train clanked by on the gleaming tracks. Driver and children watched the swaying cars. None thought to look up or down the broad right...
During the fall rowing season there were no attempts made to grade the oarsmen but since then the coaches have selected a number of candidates of high calibre and these men will participate in a regular competition even before the shells have been shipped on the Charles. The problem of finding an adequate stroke oar, is, as it was last year, the most vexing problem confronting the coaching staff...
...returns in the Imperial Suite of the Bremen with Charles Lindbergh and Gene Tunney. He knows his James Joyce and can quote Millay by the hour. Above all, he is always courteous, correct, and an extremely presentable young gentleman, despite the fact that he has usually imbibed more imported grade A spirits than Bismarck could have consumed in his halcyon days...
...examination period draws to a close, there arises the usual question of the ethics of tutoring. In certain courses students are given to understand that those who obtain such outside assistance, if it comes to the knowledge of the instructor, will be assured of a low grade regardless of the merits of their papers. Yet these courses are usually just the ones in which an accurate correlation of the entire semester's work is essential in order to pass the examination. The department of Philosophy offers an excellent example of this in the case of Philosophy...
...There is an impression in America that Europe is decadent, on the down grade, because of the War. Let me assure you that Europe was never younger than today! It is almost as if the forces of youth had been released anew in the Old World...