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...called The President's Daughter, published and issued for review by an "Elizabeth Ann Guild, Inc." of Manhattan. The author, one Nan Britton, purported to have been infatuated since girlhood with her fellow townsman, the late President Harding. He was represented as having returned her devotion after she had grown up and he had become a U. S. Senator. He was said to have placed her in Manhattan with the U. S. Steel Corp. as a secretary, through his friend, the late Elbert H. Gary. The most intimate scenes, complete details and fulsome memories of a furtive union were related...
...editorial pages were boxed in heavy black. He remained, even to the urchins who pursed small mouths and whistled or gargled the words of his wan fables, a somewhat severe shade, one to be kept properly prisoned in the dusty darkness of a schoolroom desk. The urchins, now grown into babbitts or clowns or bigwigs, sang their geography, etched Spencerian parabolas into their copy books, played "duck on a rock" at recess, spelled out the stories in McGuffey's; then they walked home on dusty roads, swinging their book straps and talking to each other, stopping to cut their initials...
...system now in use at Harvard is, I believe, unquestionably the best of those surveyed here. It is the only one that has a logical, well worked out theory of education behind it. The others seem to have grown up, hit or miss, with the years and the theory behind them, which I have expounded above is childish in comparison. Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Williams and Dartmouth have succeeded, by some miracle of inefficiency, in interfering both too much and too little in their students' choice of studies. Too much--because for the first two years they suppress all individuality, practically...
...museum of natural history of the University of Illinois, found in a Wisconsin artificial lake several species of shellfish peculiar to fresh running water. At the end of the lake where streams entered, the mollusks had remained true to type. At the other, their shells had thickened; grown stubbier. This situation apparently proved that environment produces new varieties in low-grade forms of life...
...President's Visit" said: "Pittsburgh grown great, will grow greater. . . . It has the materials. It has the skill. It has the will. . . ." In another editorial it said: "Now let the Pittsburgh public show to the utmost its appreciation of this Pittsburgh Salon-this international exhibition of paintings...