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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...equal to their own as "Bolshevists," "traitors," and the like; but the problems which they profess so high-handedly to discuss and solve are not at all as simple as these youths would have us believe. The lads are doubtless well-meaning, but let us hope that they will learn that temperance, even when dealing with the most difficult problems, is a good thing. It comes with experience...
...live today in an era of political unrest and consequently political intolerance. The people of the Middle Ages lived in an epoch of religious intolerance. We now learn that they were wrong; let us take care lest posterity judge of us as we judge of the Age of Darkness. Then some humans were mentally favored beyond their contemporaries, and preached ideas realized only much later; whatever of folly was proposed by them lost its bearing and fell away, but whatever of good was championed by them has survived and has pushed man on in his development. If these Reds have...
...development. The failure of the English system is that it does not take care of those not so quick at their books and overlooks the powers which may lie hidden in these men. What we need is a system under which the ability of those men who do not learn from books will not be wasted...
...great public schools of England must be squarely faced. To remedy this, I advocate the English system, which is the separation of the students into two classes, the brilliant and the average. By doing this, and by teaching each man according to his ability, the whole student body would learn more and the intellectual scholar would not be sacrificed to the average...
...principals may be mentioned Kenneth Douglass, Estelle Winwood, Lawrence Grossmith and Fritz Williams. "Too Many Husbands" has been hailed as the most brilliant bit of playwriting since Oscar Wilde's comedies. It treats humorously of the predicament of a young widow who marries a second time, only to learn, a year subsequently, that her first husband was not shot in the war as had been announced. His home-coming starts a series of situations said to be highly amusing. To begin with, husband number one does not know that his wife has married the second time, and to his best...