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...suggested by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, who already, at 37, was a moving spirit in U. S. pedagogy. Many an august college president objected. But Harvard's liberal Dr. Charles William Eliot approved, pointing out that such a board would only set the examinations. Colleges could still admit and reject applicants as they pleased. In 1900 the College Board was established in the Middle States. Colleges throughout the land fell in line, gradually discontinued their separate examinations. Today nearly every U. S. institution accepts, and most big ones require. College Board ratings...
...Reject a special 25% tax on admissions to horse and dog races...
Average Occidentals who possess an old piece of almost any kind of Oriental pottery are apt to believe firmly that it is "antique Satsuma." Connoisseurs reject as probably spurious any large piece, since the ancient Satsuma craftsmen whose work is so highly prized confined themselves almost exclusively to small pieces distinguished first by their lustrous glaze, second by the extreme thinness of the hairlike crackle lines and finally by the jewel-like glow and brilliance of the minutely intricate enamel painting. Nearly all "antique Satsuma" sold today is spurious, distinguished first by lustreless colors which result from artificial aging...
...public, because the only thing any large body of men or women can do is say 'yes' or 'no' to measures that are proposed. Under the present system we have forced candidates to nominate themselves. The proposition is a simple one . . . It is that the primary may reject the name and make a substitution, since political machines sometimes nominate improper people...
Last week chunky, affable Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis of Pennsylvania did a Dry-to-Wet flipflop. In 1930 he was elected on the customary platform weasel of "strict enforcement." Fearful lest Boss William Scott Vare of Philadelphia reject him as a candidate for renomination in the April primaries. Senator Davis has now "regretfully reached the conclusion that the results hoped for under Prohibition have not materialized." Henceforth the Repeal-&-Return plank of the late Dwight Whitney Morrow will be his political guide...