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...will not try to swallow all of them. I believe this is not the case in America. We do not put so much value in special training as in a well developed working mind. There is a philosophy course at Oxford from which men who get a high grade can pass directly into good business positions. The theory being that with a good sound mind anyone can be taught a business after he has entered...
...convict labor to lessen the cost. The price, however, of this aid to the poor was five dollars a ton higher than the price of coke sold by private concerns. A few days ago, in North Cambridge and Somerville, several families paid eighteen dollars a ton for an excellent grade of crushed rock, powdered with wet soft coal dust, which an affable stranger offered them in unlimited quantities. A small town in the heart of the Pennsylvania anthracite district has had to appeal to the federal government for aid in securing coal to heat its schools...
...Freshman players were divided up into four groups: backs, quarterbacks, ends, and linesmen. They were sent through the usual preliminary drill of tossing medicine balls, starting, falling on the ball, and "duck waddling". No attempt has yet been made to grade the players and the division into first and second squads will not come until next week...
...passing with a grade not lower than C in either French or German A or a similar course in another college or an elementary admission examination (based on two years of secondary school instruction) in French or German...
...passing either an advanced admission examination (based on three years of secondary school instruction) or a college course in the French or German man language of higher grade than French A or German...