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...meantime, before the work begins, we venture a couple of suggestions. The committee, when it is constituted, ought to be representative of the undergraduate body as a whole. It should contain one or more members drawn from each grade of the rank list. Too many undergraduate committees are "bottom heavy" from this point of view. Here is particularly a case where high-standing scholars should have adequate representation. Otherwise the committee's recommendations, whatever they may be, will be somewhat discounted in advance. And rightly so, for nobody cares what the lame ducks think about educational requirements which they have...
...Beekman Place, Manhattan, ("rival to Sutton Place"), real estate dealers have induced many people, "smart," "artistic" and "high-grade," to fix their abodes. At No. 23 lives Katherine Cornell, famed actress; at No. 27, Actor William Farnum; nearby are Earle Booth, Margalo Gillmore; and at No. 37 one Marcus Schlossman, dealer in plumbing supplies, a blunt forthright fellow, has his home. Long has Plumber Schlossman viewed with alarm the growing "exclusiveness" of the district, the efforts of realtors to attract even more fine feathers. It did not help the plumbing trade, that much he knew. Was such cock-loftiness even...
...been a successful banker in Mason city, Iowa, since resigning from the army at the close of the Great War. The new assistant saw service on the Mexican border in 1916, and in 1917 went to France as a second lieutenant in the A. E. F. reaching the grade of lieutenantcolonel by the end of the war. He was wounded in action at St. Mihiel and decorated three times for bravery...
...that vat of molten lead, too. Reason: our patent pumps and tanks mix with ordinary city gas all the air it needs to burn efficiently anywhere." Hard by was a row of bottles with "white fish meal-for cattle," "impure glycerine-pure glycerine," "cod liver oil, certified grade," and other irrelevant mottoes. "Na, na!" said the gnarled Scot in charge, "we dinnae make sich stuff. Bit they ither folk employ oor mechines fir th' dryin' an' extracting...
...half months, a fourth less than five months, over an eighth less than three months. In schools having nine-month terms, the average attendance was 70%, compared with 60% in seven-month terms. Pupils who had less than 130 days of schooling fell a year and a half behind grade in reading and spelling ability...