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...many years ago, practically all the ham and bacon eaten in Britain was either a domestic or a U. S. product. But the Danes resolved to enter the British market. They first made an exact study of British tastes. British pigs were imported into Denmark and bred, British methods of curing bacon and hams were carefully investigated. The distance to England being short, transportation was readily available for bringing the fresh meats to Britain...
...extreme is a thing of the pas. "The course system as a method of college instruction masses men into an educational factory. Its only result can be an approach to a standardized product. Humanity cannot and ought no to be standardized. Every student in college presents a different combination of characteristics which distinguish him from his fellow-students. The individual student should be modeled on his own personality rather than on a common ideal...
...National Union of Teachers, which also met last week and in which women have the most powerful voice, announced that the segregation of boys and girls in schools was "silly and unhealthy and ought to be relegated to the madhouse; a product of war and pugnacious prancings by the National Association of Schoolmasters...
...West Babylon, N. Y., experimenters announced the development of a new illuminating gas. The raw material used: crude oil or refinery residuum. The product: a hydrogen and carbon combination containing no carbon monoxide because manufactured at low temperatures. The product's qualities : non-asphyxiating because void of carbon monoxide ; content of 1,600 British thermal (heat) units as against 525 to 585 units in most illuminating gases. From 7 gal. of refinery residuum are produced 1,000 cu. ft. of the new gas and a by-product of 1½ gal. of gasoline high in ethylene content...
Under the system which Mr. Erskine proposes, the student would study a few great isolated men, and a little of their immediate environment, but he would get no idea of the continuity of history. Each great man is a product of his environment, and if he represents the synthesis of a movement, is as unrevealing if studied by himself as the answer with-out the mathematical problem. It takes a long series of incidents to make the time ripe for a great man, and since he must be studied in the light of the long movement which brought him forth...