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...speaker for the affirmative after a brief preliminary address and reading of the question. Darby made it clear in the beginning that the affirmative agreed with the negative in two respects; first that limitation of enrolment was necessary, and second that they recognized that scholastic attainments were the preliminary test. "But we don't want grinds and bookworms," said Darby, "but leaders with personality and initiative, and a single scholastic standard is no criterion of the worth of men who possess these characteristics. Don't put the whole system of education in a threehour examination straightjacket," he concluded...
...this evening will be the opportunity of comparing University speakers, who are but gradually approaching the fluent conversational style, with those of Yale and Princeton where changes in the old order have been made with great vigor and enthusiasm. To some degree the results should measure the appeal and test the practicability of a new style of public address...
...Field, Mineola, L. I., far above the dangerous clouds, flying 'by dead reckoning alone and seeing no land for 450 miles. They broke the speed record for the trip, covering 575 miles in 3 hours 45 minutes in their De Haviland plane. But their real object was to test two new devices for blind flight, which-allowing pilots to keep their course without reference to land marks -will permit them to fly high above such storms as caused Pearson's death. One device is a lateral level indicator., showing whether the plane is flying on a level keel...
...empty space of the fusilage provides quite a large degree of buoyancy, till the water leaks through the cloth covering. To test the flotation of one of the huge air liners, the British Air Ministry has determined on an interesting experiment. One of its less valuable planes will be put into flying condition, loaded with a weight equivalent to that of fuel, pilot and eight passengers and set adrift in the sea off Felixstone. The probabilities are that the plane will float for hours, thus reassuring the public that nothing but a few hours' discomfort would follow a plunge...
...heart of the individual purpose as anything can. We are all ready to suffer many restraints, but we are not ready to surrender the right of freedom to any one Religion must also be free in its growth. Religious education based upon fear does not stand the test of reason, for it is absolutely wrong and false to the idea of religion and education...