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...might take out towards Medford and Malden. I learned how to find the North Pole with or without a compass and how to crack rocks which should prove valuable if I ever get lost in the Arctic Ocean or go to jail. A Scout Club could go further and teach men semaphore so that they could understand what the little man in the bright red sweater does during football games...
...first necessity, however, is to get the scoutmasters themselves interested; and, incidentally, to be sure they know more than the boys they are to teach. The best way to do this is not to ask them impersonally and vaguely if they would be interested in a "Harvard Scout Club", which might mean a club in which they were to be the scouts. Explanation and publicity should precede...
...fact of human nature that there are many men to whom the trick of writing a good examination must-always remain a mystery. There, of course, lies the first unfairness. Give me for a few hours a man who has a certain natural wit; and I can teach him enough blue-book "fricks" to guarantee him as pass over the man who knows his work thoroughly, can speak it and ever use it to advantage, but cannot write it as the correctors of blue-books would have it written. And I have written and corrected too many blue-books myself...
...Mencken, Gilbert Seldes and F. P. Awood Broun, he will need all his humor and poise to keep from showing off. Thus far he has succeeded. The delightful thing about this book of short stories is not the amusing burlesque framework, ridiculing those textbooks that offer to teach illiterate soda-clerks to earn $25,000 in the writing business; nor is it in the tales themselves, which are most divertingly couched in "the American language." The insolent humor of the book lies in the fact that between the framework and the stories there is absolutely no connection. Let the doubting...
...long time the art-loving public has been in need of just such a book. It has long been known that our American museums sheltered many excellent examples of Greek and Roman sculpture; but just how rich they are it has remained for this book to teach...