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...contention of the author, who is a member of one of the numerous committees appointed by the Prime Minister to consider England's educational problem, is that the few have been favored to the disadvantage of the many, and that all students should be taught English and learn to know the literature of the country; above all education should be broadened to bring into close contact with actual life, whereas the New World desires to polish off her instruction, the Old World must revamp hers...
...competition was a problem in landscape design. The competitors were furnished with a topographic map of a given piece of property in an attractive Massachusetts town, on which a house, somewhat in the Italian style, had already been erected. The owner wished to construct a formal garden of some distinction according with the style of the house, of which a photograph was furnished the competitors...
...pick out suitable upperclassmen in the fall, one would think they can do it as easily the previous spring. But when we consider that in the spring what the academic standing of the prospective advisor the following fall will be is a matter of conjecture, we see that the problem is not so simple. For theoretically (although we hold this a matter of contention) advisors on probation are not at all to be desired...
...very well be possible were it not for one circumstance: DeValera and his discontents. The "President of the Irish Republic" has fought the treaty tooth and nail, and to all intents and purposes will continue to do so. Why he should feel the way he does is no great problem. He is first and foremost an egitator who lives on the troubles of others; to establish peace in Ireland would leave him, frankly, out of a job. Even the fact that the majority of his aims have been accomplished leaves him unmoved. So long as he continues to be "patriotic...
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