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...this very reason the excellence of the contest is far from marked. This is simply an attack upon the methods of instruction here pursued. In reply to such an attack, we can only say that the present method, while differing widely from the instruction which presents as its highest ideal a clarion cry and the famous "windmill act," is surely based upon the most fundamental rules of good speaking. Gentlemanly and dignified bearing, and full control of the vocal powers are certainly aims sufficiently elevated for even an elocutionist of the old school...
...oval skull is usually considered the ideal in shape. A sharp skull usually marks a low mental activity, although this is not always the case. Intellect depends only in part on the size of the brain. Portions of the brain have been lost without loss of activity. The "American Crowbar Case" is the most famous, when a bar 1 1-2 inches in diameter, and 3 feet long was shot in blasting through a man's head, entering in the jaw and coming out in the forward part of the head. This man recovered. Experiments on animals show that cutting...
Lost. Probably in the gymnasium last Saturday, a Waterman Ideal Fountain Pen with K marked on the point cover. Finder please return to 17 Weld...
There is an old custom at the University of Pennsylvania, called the Cremation, that it is interesting to know and to remember as one of those college ceremonies that are rapidly dying out in our higher institutions of learning as they gradually advance nearer to the state of the ideal university. Although such progress works incalculable good, it has, I think, this one drawback; that it involves a loss of many customs that showed, if you will, a more boyish and consequently less properly developed state of feeling, but that still constituted in a great measure that part of college...
...indefatigable industry and love, he pushed his-noble work which took eight centuries and a Luther to undo. He became arch-bishop and papal legate. From his home in Britain came zealous men and women to aid him in his work. At last he fell a victim to his ideal and died a martyr's death, killed by the men he was attempting to save...