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Carl Edgar Mapes of Grand Rapids, Mich., might have been a pastor or Y. M. C. A. executive. But he learned the law and trod a narrow path into Congress 15 years ago. His domed forehead, neat eyeglasses and bland face are often seen presiding over the Committee of the Whole in the Speaker's absence for he is an excellent, patient parliamentarian. The other Michigan men usually vote as he suggests...
People who looked skyward the nights of Nov. 14 and 15 saw the year's amplitude of meteors. Earth was making its annual passage through the orbit of the Leonids. Their orbit is a vast ellipsis swinging beyond even Jupiter, and along its path race hunks of stone, iron and other minerals. When those pieces strike the Earth's atmosphere friction makes them terrifically hot. They burn with an intense blue flame. Some burn up entirely, some plunge into Earth's earth or seas, adding their mite to Earth's size and power among the astral...
...between pleasure and self-mortification by which man ascends the Mount of Vision. Confucius, Ancient Teacher, Perfect Sage, "has river eyes and a dragon fore head ... his arms are long, his back is like a tortoise . . . when he speaks he praises the ancient kings. He moves along the path of humility and courtesy. He has heard of every subject. . . . His knowledge of things seems inexhaustible." He edited the ancient classics, compiled the precepts of propriety, attempted to uplift and order civilization. As magistrate, he justified Plato's ideal of government by philosophers - until political jealousy...
...movement is patently variable and the reasons for the present turn at best only hypothetical. It may be that more students are now concentrating in Economics than in English or any of the sciences because the propensities of the modern Harvard mind tend toward the pursual of a path midway between the strictly academic and the purely utilitarian; a second explanation might attribute the change to the added equipment and personnel of the Business School suggesting possibilities for the incipient graduate. In the latter case a ground training in the principles of Economics would probably prove of more value than...
...both in the nature of things, only students with an unusual amount of initiative and intellectual curiosity ever break the chain that leads them either directly into a job or to the ministrations of a local academy of higher learning. Any measures towards removing the handicaps in the path of this type of candidate will both help to remove an unfair disadvantage and secure for the college desirable members...