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...practicality must also be considered. This plan creates, as never before, a staggeringly heavy load for tutorial. The tutorial staff must correlate the diverse courses which each student takes, must point out to him their relations and their bearing upon his chosen problem. If it fails in this, education becomes even more of a chaos of disconnected subjects. Required are tutors with a broad but keen grasp of the whole area themselves, and these may be difficult if not impossible to find, especially among the younger...
...publishers' readers "made bold to class this unusual first novel with The Bridge of San Luis Rey." A bold blurb, it is something less than accurate. The main aptness of the comparison is that Author Myers' story also collapses, too lightly constructed to support its load of symbolism...
...stop indiscriminate selling of hunting licenses, John H. Baker, executive director of the National Association of Audubon Societies, proposed examinations comparable to automobile drivers' tests. An applicant, he mildly suggested, should be made to show his knowledge of how to load, carry, fire and unload a gun, prove his ability to read game laws and posted signs, know by sight the game birds and animals in his vicinity...
...after one o'clock in the morning, Mrs. Shreck heard her 36-year-old husband's voice on 3,105 kilocycles, where many a pilot's anxious wife listens while he is aloft. He was on instruments at 15,000 feet, bogging down with a heavy load of ice, blown far east of Spokane by a terrific wind. The rest was silence. Last week, Pilot Shreck, still bundled in his water-soaked flying suit, stumbled into a farmhouse 50 miles east of Spokane. He had crashed on a 5,000-foot wooded ridge, had walked, crawled...
City Councilman Michael A. ("Mickey the Dude") Sullivan reentered Harvard's political arena last Saturday night when in his capacity as a local truckman he exported a symbolical load of sand, a large horse-shoe floral wreath, three canaries and six pigeons from the Independents, conservative political group to a dance in the Hotel Statler given by the Affiliated Jewish Youth Organization to raise money to send Jewish refugees to Palestine...