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...public reaction to Hail and Farewell is not hard to analyze. The public has been reacting to it identically-under the name of Ca- mille-for a good many years. And its mode of expression has been consistently lachrymal and always will be, as long as Camille continues to renounce her happiness and persists in giving up her charming ghost at the critical moment...
Professor Taussig stated that there were three modes of approach to the problem: by statistics, by experimental psychology, and by biology. The statistical mode has been tried twice on a large scale, the speaker declared. These experiments had exactly the same results, but they were interpreted in directly opposite ways by the two experimenters...
...candidates, supplemented by a composition and a long questionnaire". "This intensely interesting system", said President Eliot in conclusion, "will undoubtedly last a long time, with a man of Mr. Morgan's faculties at the head of it, and will be followed closely by those who desire a better mode of testing whether a candidate will be an asset to a college...
...many things. Most certainly they do not know or do not reverence the Bible. They do not perceive that the last way to gain renown is by using bad language. In the third place the "strong language" been do not realize how detrimental is the effect of their unseemly mode of speech not only upon their moral standards but also upon their power to express themselves clearly and forcefully. They also do not appreciate the fact that it is just as easy and far better to be a "good fellow" and at the same time to have a clean mouth...
Then the king landed. He was met by a camera of the True News Corporation, and a small committee of welcome. The welcome was satisfactory but "la mode" was not. The latest importations had stimulated American industry but M. Poiret did not like them. He strongly objected to the popular French perfume and the most costly Parisien hats. "American women have not ze sense of beauty: Zey do not even like monkey...