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...failed to note was that the sun did not rise out of the west, nor the moon revolve in great circles about the Statue of Liberty, all because of the Beauty Contest. The fact that the winner has not been swamped with letters from college students is a small proof of the pudding--that Babbitts are not the only pebbles on the American...
...Lamont has written a very telling article for the current Advocate on "Who Runs Harvard and Why." He proves once for all, if there was ever need for proof, that the private school man "runs" extra curriculum activities and that the public school man ranks higher in scholastic work...
...contact with life in varied occupations, and whose capacity for appreciating beauty and reason has been surpassed by the average of no other race and time." With the statement one in part agrees, but certainly not on the point of political sagacity, at least. As for Galton's anthropological proof of this, it is a frankly arbitrary decision of private opinion, made so as to demonstrate the application of his intelligence scale to other peoples than the English...
...development of Turkey, recently arrived in Paris from Anatolia, main Turkish province in Asia Minor. He denied rumors that the Turkish Government had offered the Concession to the German Stinnes over the heads of the Ottoman-American Development Co., the concern which holds the Chester Concession. He stated, as proof to the contrary, that materials were in the course of shipment to Turkey; that engineers on the spot " were working under extra pressure to make up for the regrettable delays arising from the internal controversies which have now ended; " that "full activities" are impossible owing to the approach of Winter...
...difficult to predict the performance of the Harvard team as these eleven men have never started together before. But each man has given ample proof of his ability individually in previous games, and Eastman, Dunker, Grew, Hammond, Spalding and Gordon have all won their letters in previous years...