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...selection of students. The thirst for knowledge has become a commonplace. Hundreds of students are turned away (especially by the colleges for women) because of the inadequacy of the facilities. At Vassar, 298 Freshmen were admitted out of 539 candidates; at Wellesley 424 out of 1,337; at Mount Holyoke, 338 out of 680; at Smith, 600 out of 1,835. Selection having become necessary, the problem of whom to select has arisen. Admission on the basis of an aristocracy of brains is considered unsatisfactory...
...year, Prudential's income amounted to only $1,555. In 1851 Henry Harben, its famed Secretary, entered the Company. Harben practically created the modern insurance business of Europe by preaching popular thrift through insurance, and raising the ethical standards of the business. So rapidly did the Company's income mount in the 60's that it was once attacked in Parliament by Gladstone. Harben showed that the Prime Minister was mistaken, and the latter was forced to retract. Harben also inaugurated scientific industrial insurance, and was the first to gather actual statistics regarding health and deaths...
...Mount Everest is as yet unscaled, but Lowell Thomas and his party are optimistic of future success. Speaking at the Majestic Theatre, and illustrating his lecture with movies, colored pictures, and Eastern music, Mr. Thomas tells the story of the attempt which almost succeeded. But his lecture is chiefly based on the strange events of the expedition before it reached the mountain proper Many scenes never before filmed are shown, such as those of a Tibetan devil dance in one of the highest monasteries in the world. This is accompanied by weird music from the orchestra and is strangely attractive...
...youth step on the gas and set a-rolling the bus destined to carry the spirit of sportsmanship throughout the world. There is no finer ideal for the spirit of sportsmanship is the essential oil of the Sermon on the Mount. There is plenty of room on the bus for all, working-men, millionaires, ordinary folks, all ages, both sexes, for sport is the most democratic thing--the only truly democratic thing--in the world...
Said Pierre Wertheimer, owner of Epinard: "I have no complaint to make against Haynes, and would give him the mount tomorrow under similar circumstances. Haynes will ride my horse in England and America this coming Summer...