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...indicate. But if it is such as to jeopardize good relations between English and Australian cricketers and you consider it desirable to cancel the remainder of the program, we would consent . . . with great reluctance. . . ." While waiting for the B. C. C. to decide whether or not to resume the test matches (with England ahead, 2-to-1, in the three-out-of-five series) the British team engaged in an exhibition match with New South Wales on a rain-soaked pitch at Sydney...
Prodigious also is Fenton Benedict Turck Jr. He worked with test tubes before he could play marbles, cultivated streptococci before he could write his A B C's. At 9, a zealous, frail, brown-eyed boy, he lectured the Chicago Microscopical Society on microbes and laboratory technique, showed his own lantern slides. During a fatiguing lecture which ran far beyond his regular bedtime, he grew pale. A wise scholar picked up the child, held him inverted by his feet. Right-side up again Young Turck continued his lecture. Father Turck decided that biology excited the child too much, diverted...
...special examination to test the student in the more or less mechanical process of translation could be held possibly in November or April; or a small part of the final examination might consist of material simply to be translated. The final examinations should, however, be based mainly on literary criticism and discussion rather than on the mechanics of translation and the dialectics of philology. An effort should be made to encourage general reading at sight in Latin and Greek, and to exclude, as much as possible, the laborious work of choosing the most exact English with which to render...
...correlation of the reading he has done; without the examination bugbear, he would be less concerned with demonstrating by more outline that he has perfunctorily read the assigned books and he would be more inclined to show his originality. The final examination could then have more time adequately to test his understanding of the remainder of the course...
...Park used to take his test tubes of germs to bed with him to keep them warm. One of his early laboratories was in the Criminal Courts building. The judges disliked his guinea pigs, drove him out. He found a corner in a municipal disinfectant plant, eventually got a regular building and a staff, which now numbers...