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...proof of this view, Col. Ayres has charted since 1890 the average yields on 60 high-grade bonds and the current rates prevailing for 90-day "time money" on security collateral, as well as the average price for industrial stocks. As a rule, he discovers that stock prices have risen during periods when time rates were lower than bond yields, and nave fallen when time rates were higher than yields...
Officers. The Association had, according to custom, to choose a lady successor to President Newlon. There were two candidates (and rumors of electioneering). Each candidate made a speech. Miss Cornelia S. Adair, grade teacher of Richmond, Va., said she did not see how you could do your duty by your children if you did not take part in community affairs. Miss Mary McSkimmon, principal of Pierce High School, Brookline, Mass., said: "The great opportunity before education today is to apply the new understanding of childhood to teaching." Miss McSkimmon got elected...
...Brooklyn, one Gertrude Stigman, 9, promoted to the 4B grade in school, was rewarded by her mother with a rubber ball. Gertrude bounced the ball joyously high in air, landed it in a flower box, climbed up, clutched the side of the box which, unsettled by her tug, toppled with its 200 lb. of earth upon her skull, crushed her to death...
Stanley R. Yarnall, master of the Germantown Friends' School (Philadelphia), which is co-educational from kindergarten through high school : "The control of the boy does not depend on the sex of the teacher. It depends on the character. . . . We have discovered that, up to the fifth-grade age, women are better teachers for boys than men. There is one exception to be noted here. When our boys reach the fourth grade, we put them under men instructors for athletics...
...graduate students eligible to compete for places on the Harvard team that will bandy words with Oxford debaters touring the U. S. and Canada next fall. Reason: Oxford, untutored in the fine technique of eligibility rulings, has in the past sent over students who are "beyond the usual college grade," has consistently defeated U. S. teams recruited exclusively from the "usual grade...