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Three thousand years of history will substantiate the claim that no war ever accomplished what it was intended to. The victors are the losers; they have to compromise. No system that compromises can be called a success. The last war and the one before that and the ones before that accomplished nothing...
From these findings Wilford Aikin and his fellow commissioners drew only this cautious conclusion: Progressive schooling is at least no handicap to success in college. But they believed that the implications of their conclusion were revolutionary: if traditional high-school courses had no advantages for the college-bound, why should not every U. S. high school be free to try new ways? Armed with this thesis, the Commission last spring began conferences with college officers. It proposed that colleges substitute simpler entrance requirements. A suggested plan: 1) recommendation of a student by his high-school principal, 2) the student...
...George Washington's first administration was drawing to a close. Late in that year a 26-year-old Massachusetts bookseller & stationer named Robert Bailey Thomas brought out the first edition of The Old Farmer's Almanac. It was an immediate success. It is a success today-the oldest almanac...
Fabulous was the Old Farmer's success in predicting diurnal or hebdomadal weather a year in advance. Legend has it that the publisher, pressed by a typesetter for a July 13 forecast, replied hastily: "Anything, anything." The impish employe set up "Rain, Hail and Snow." On July 13, sure enough, it rained, hailed and snowed.* A Providence, R. I. clerk kept count of the Old Farmer's forecast for 1900. It was 33% correct- 2% below the U. S. Weather Bureau's day-ahead record...
Some small success has already come Spain's way. After repairing its diplomatic break with Chile, whose Valparaiso Consul is also a Hispanidad Councilman, Spain began taking first shipments on a 150,000-ton nitrate order last week. But Riestra's reception in Havana was evidence that Latin America was not yet ready for a full dose of Axis-made love and intelligence...