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...program contains neither "Frisco" nor San Francisco. TIME agrees that "Frisco" is a very low grade of drummers' slang...
Japan is becoming a bilingual country. The importation of English words to name American sport, business, engineering, and education has, however, not been accompanied by a corresponding achievement to English sounds. The teaching of English from the sixth grade onwards, usually by Japanese, develops in the sons of the East a third-hand language, whose characters, at least, are identical with those of English. This situation, as some reformers intend, is to be changed completely...
...bill requiring compulsory school attendance for all children in the District of Columbia between the ages of 7 and 16, excepting children of 14 or more who have completed the 8th grade. (Went to the House...
...notes. Instead of 100 per cent linen paper formerly used, the Treasury has had to resort to cotton paper stock. Money printed on this inferior paper deteriorates rapidly in circulation, and when sent into Washington to be replaced cannot be successfully laundered and reissued as could be the higher grade linen paper...
...Charles Gray Shaw, of New York University, mused skeptically: "As a matter of fact," said he, "the students have more avidity for knowledge than their teachers can boast. . . . If they do not learn, it is because they are not taught. The conversation of students is often of a low grade. So is that of their teachers." Prof. Shaw declared that the student of the day inclines to the unemotional attitude of Leopold and Loeb, Chicago perverts; that Phi Beta Kappa, hierarchy of U. S. scholarship, is as useless as its emblem, a watch...