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...Faunce's suggestions are thoughtful and pertinent, and they doubtless would provide a satisfactory test of the candidate's capacity to profit by a college education if they were conscientiously answered. But the difficulty would seem to be that most prospective collegians are likely to consider that the matter of their personal fitness is not worth much thought, inasmuch as the question is neither pressing nor easy to solve. College is usually regarded as a matter of course,--to be taken or discarded on its objective merits. It is a rare thing when unsuitability and failure are judged in advance...
...precludes the possibility of a change, it would seem a very difficult matter to decide whether or no a moderate interest in things intellectual might not be developed into a genuine appreciation, or, on the other hand, a seemingly scholarly bent may be only transient. If Dr. Faunce's test could ever be satisfactorily applied it would certainly go a long way toward solving a problem, but it would seem, at first sight, to be more useful as a recapitulatory for a college graduate than as an index for an entrant. Where the latter could profit by it, only...
...Supreme Court also ruled that bootleggers and others with income from unlawful sources must file federal income tax returns but have the right to test the validity of taxes on such incomes...
...popularity and inspired the elder brother to compile a prodigious Sixth. The Guide contained selections chosen to improve inflection and memory as well as morals and sentiment. There were the "Village Black smith," "Thanatopsis," "Gray's Elegy," "Lochinvar" and Hamlet's soliloquy. Stern questions followed each selection to test the reader's attention and earnestness...
...losing necessary flying speed a few feet above the ground, trying to land in a marsh at 70 miles per hour. In such a bird, last week, were Lieut. Commander Noel Davis and Lieut. Stanton Hall Wooster, crack flyers of the U. S. Navy. They were making their last test flight in the trimotored American Legion, preparatory to attempting a non-stop jump from the U. S. to Paris. Loaded with enough gasoline to cross the Atlantic, their plane roared along the ground at Langley Field, near Hampton, Va. Gradually, almost painfully, it rose to a height of some...