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...able to obtain certified paints the quality of which has been passed on by a commission; ... if the canvases, pigments and varnishes bought by artists are not good, their pictures will not last. It is too much to expect every artist to be a chemist who can test his own pigments. ... So far as our resources have permitted we have undertaken the pioneering work in this direction...
...Coolidge presided at an oratorical contest in which five boys and two girls gave orations on the American Constitution. Four Justices of the Supreme Court were judges of the con-test-Van Devanter, Butler, Sutherland, Sanford. First prize ($3,500) was awarded to Don Tyler of Los Angeles. In his prolegomena, the President said: "Our constitutional system has justified itself not only in our own history, but in the fact that it has been accepted as the model upon which so many later experiments in democratic-republican institutions have been based...
...about one third of all the Baptists of the whole world. . . . Thus the salvation of Negroes is logically and largely the work of Baptists." He declared that the presence of the Negro in the North as elsewhere created "a real or an imaginary problem which is the severest test of the worth and practicability of Christianity." He added that "to protect a credulous, inexperienced voter from the avarice and selfishness of 'designing men, is the golden opportunity and imperative duty of humanity-loving, God-fearing...
...trend of opinion is that every test may properly be used to select candidates?intellectual tests, tests of health, strength, and endurance, personal tests based on evidence of former teachers and on conferences between members of the Admission Committees and candidates...
...further premeditated test of the vessel's powers, another heavy fog was encountered on the way back over Trenton. The ship lost her bearings for a short time, sailed out some four miles to sea, but recovered her course shortly afterwards and reached Lakehurst in the early morning, having made a round trip of 1,000 miles in something under 24 hours...