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Ever since the unusual stimulation provided by the World War, the deep-shaft, low grade copper mines of this country have found the going hard, with production costs close to market quotations for the red metal. Discouraged producers, especially in Michigan, are now turning to tariff legislation as the only visible means of running their properties at a profit. The movement has resulted in a bill introduced by Representative W. Frank James of Michigan, to place a tariff on imported copper of 6? a pound...
...mistake more frequently made is to suppose that a mediocre grade indicates mediocrity later. In examining the records of Seniors who did excellent work in special subjects I have been struck with the frequent cases of men who did only fairly well in the introductory course. That was especially the case where the training at school had not been good...
...Tests made with 124 elementary classes of second, fifth and seventh grades to compare small with large classes of pupils, showed that the large classes were practically as efficient as the small. The most benefit from small classes was derived in the lower grade -P. R. Stevenson, of Ohio State University...
...Teachers of equal training are equal experience should receive equal pay regardless of what grade in elementary or high schools they teach. -Jesse H. Mewlon, Supt. of Denver Schools...
...same spirit that we find Mr. Young asking an endowment for a research school of international relations rather than for the institution of "civics" classes in the grade schools. And President Goodnow, who has only recently seen the establishment of the new undergraduate department of Johns Hopkins at Homewood, complete with elaborate buildings, extra-curriculum activities and a rising football team, seems to be doubting the value of that sort of thing and looking toward a university of students rather than of people who go to college. There are plenty of places where people can be taught, but there...