Word: sixteener
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...Gorgon of Faculty censorship has raised its snaky locks at Ann Arbor: as a result, sixteen members of the Michigan "Sunday Magazine" have resigned. The particulars vary with the point of view. The editors point to a series of faculty interventions which made their positions impossible. A scientific article on gland transference, approved by a professor, roused the final outburst which precipitated their resignations. By the other camp this article is described as intentionally repulsive and disgusting; and the editor of the "Daily", the superior of the "Magazine" is said to have asked the unruly staff of the latter...
...Sixteen large churches have burned, and smaller fires have been numerous. At first the blame was laid upon overheated furnaces or defective wiring. But, as fire after fire occurred and only Roman Catholic churches were destroyed, incendiarism was suspected. Staid insurance journals, never influenced by casual rumor, regard human agency as probable; fire insurance underwriters will insure Catholic churches only to a limited extent and at high rates...
...weekly magazine, devoted to giving the "irreducible minimum" of news facts. Its founders, two 1920 editors of the Yale "News", have collected a staff of young newspaper-men, including three from Harvard, and have proceeded on a basis of "complete organization". Briefly, all popular interests are divided into sixteen departments, such as Sports, Foreign Affairs, Books, Plays, Crimes; and a specialist covers each. The articles will be short and straightforward, easily accessible, giving facts in their simplest shape; and, there will be no editorials. The editors publish their prejudices in the first issue, and thereafter hold their peace. Appropriately, they...
Anyone who has had any time to spend at a railroad station has found himself sooner or later on the penny scales comparing his weight and height at sixteen or twelve with the standard given. When the comparison does not turn out to his satisfaction he decides that the average given cannot be accurate, and in the past his conclusion has been correct. It is with the aim of determining these standards more exactly that the Graduate School of Education has undertaken in Dean Holmes' words a "research enterprise of major importance...
...keep the proper balance the "dead-wood" must be eliminated, the interest in scholarship maintained and, as the writer in the Advocate aptly expresses it, a spirit of inquisitiveness revived. His plan to raise the requirements for an A.B. degree to four Bs in a total of sixteen courses that a man must pass, with no more than two Ds, and an allowance for failure of one whole course, undoubtedly would prune effectually if not entirely remove the "deadwood". But it is very doubtful whether the mental growth of the remainder would be permanently stimulated. Men would have...