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...Parliamentary mechanics behind this Wet move involved a liberalization...
American public school authorities will watch with hopeful interest the reactions of their own, communities to the recent move of the Superintendent of Schools in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Announcing that some forty students were "too lazy to study", the superintendent ordered their names dropped from the school rolls. Later relenting, he called a conference of the parents concerned, and as a result allowed the men to be reinstated under probation. If the students do not show marked improvement within a reasonable length of time, they are to be summarily dismissed...
...move of the Asbury Park superintendent is therefore courageous in that it voices loudly a desire which officials have hitherto submissively silenced. A brace in morale has already been noted at Asbury Park but it is unlikely that the incident will have any immediate effect on the position of authorities in other communities. It indicates, however, a growing impatience on the part of educators with those who continually misuse opportunities provided at public expense. If some definite power of removal could be granted to officials in public schools, American education would be freed from the burden imposed by the pernicious...
...little drum may be placed, and as the pig breathes pressure causes the drum to contract, raising and lowering a pointer which marks on a revolving smoked drum. This apparatus is rather amusing, for the guinea pig crawls into it without any encouragement, and once inside never attempts to move. When the experimenting is over, one merely points the tube toward the light and the pig will crawl...
...psychological value. More important was the Locarno Treaty, which made an epoch in Franco-German diplomacy, and in which the influence of Streseman was vital. The League of Nations, though not of his creating, has taken deeply the color of his personality, and will in all likelihood continue to move, for both good and evil; along the lines which he marked...