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Here is what they say: "They (the professors) pay a combined total tax of $81,212,74, which is one percent of the total amount needed to run the city for a year, and the seven members of the "extravagant" school committee together pay a larger total tax than does the entire Harvard teaching staff...
Teachers College's bald, nervous Clyde R. Miller, reaching Cleveland early, key-noted before the Cleveland Schoolmasters' Club: "Two percent of the people in the nation control 85% of the wealth and I suspect that if they could sell air they would get a corner on it and let the rest of us suffocate."* Among his list of a dozen "axioms" were: 1) Life is worth living. If it isn't we ought to stand the unemployed up and shoot them or let them starve as our financial interests now blandly permit. 2) Most people...
...Photographic competition affords worthwhile experience to those men in the College who are interested in the science of taking and developing pictures. Here the candidate is initiated into the whole system of the preparation of an engraving for a daily news sheet, from the subject to allow his percent to be taken, through the developing printing and enlarging, to the final of the out itself. Under the careful and guidance of experienced editors the candidate is gives the results of which are criticized both from the standpoint of technique and results obtained...
...attention on the few brilliant minds in each class. Dean Hanford declares: "There are always a number of able and ambitious students who will do work of honor quality without the need of stimulation; the important thing is to stir up the marginal group of 15 to 20 percent who are capable of achieving something more than a gentleman's grade...
...sometimes sprightly investigation of the spiritual life of a family of shell-backed Bostonians. The Parleys live in a dingily magnificent mansion of Beacon Street. Their farm on the Merrimac River and the possibility that existence may contain more for them than security on a "careful, calm, contented four percent" are two of the things that they remember when the maverick of the family, Sister Christina (Lillian Gish), arrives from the nunnery to spend Christmas. Before Christina arrives, the Parleys are worried mainly because they think she may decide to claim, by their father's will, their town house...