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...present-day editors are no longer as sure as they (and their fathers) were that they know what news is. In the past 15 years, the outlines of the definition have both blurred and broadened...
Forkballs & Sliders. Dr. Hyland, a frustrated ballplayer himself, resents any suggestion that the present-day frequency of "elbow chips" and bone growths means that players are less durable than of old. Says Doc, who often talks the way sport-writers write: "Today's crop is obviously better educated and, if anything, up to a faster type of baseball. The culprit in the injury woodpile is the development of trick pitching...
...returned to the Yard as a professor in 1870. Though he did not know it, and would probably have been scandalized to hear it, he was teaching in what has since come to be regarded as the beginning of Harvard's golden age. Last week, present-day readers could catch a little of the shine of that era through a new book by onetime Harvard Lecturer Rollo Walter Brown (Harvard Yard in the Golden...
...released at Christmas. But Tunesmiths Evans & Livingston hope to pocket $20,000 apiece from it. They have written another tune, My Own True Love, which they expect to be a hit, too, though the public has yet to hear it. That one, say Evans & Livingston, is "a sort of present-day I Love You Truly. You know, you can sing it in church...
...want three different answers to the question-"What's education for?"-ask three different educators. But, by & large, the "liberal arts" colleges believe that education should be for general culture, not specific training. Even in the liberal arts colleges, however, the present-day undergraduates gravitate toward courses that look as if they would pay off quicker in the graduate world...