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...tutoring is a noble calling. It is at once a lifesaving and life-sacrificing employment. . . . The abolition of required mathematics and physics in the Freshman year has had a very depressing effect on the tutoring business; but, notwithstanding this great narrowing of the field, tutoring is a business that thrives today, and doubtless if always will thrive...
Major Selwyn went to work. But he did not get along with Boers or blacks; his cattle did not thrive; he could not afford the guards the Boers maintained against native thievery; and finally his old wound began slowly to paralyze him. Four years ago he quit and his wife took over...
...Corbeil, Ontario the history-making Dionne quintuplets, who were born two months prematurely, continued to thrive in their eighth week (TIME, June 11). Still kept in incubators they wriggled, stretched, arched their backs, waved their limbs and squeaked for food. Montreal mothers sent them 20 oz. of breast milk daily, which Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe last week began to supplement with tomato juice. Mrs. Dionne, who had injured herself by getting out of childbed too soon, was up and about last week...
...bedraggled little animal that was led around Soldiers Field last fall between the halves of the football game. Handsome Dan was a lovable pet, but his success as a mascot was open to grave question. His enthusiasm for his masters seemed ever dilatory, and although he watched the Blues thrive in the field of winter sports, even this could hardly regain the prestige he had lost in the fall...
...Wallace, in complaining that America has not a youth movement, suggests that the New Deal should induce one. The colleges can only reply that youth movements do not thrive on a leadership multiple as well as diverse, that they demand more than good intentions as the price of their allegiance. They have already replied to the New Doal's bid for support by asking the New Deal which of the things that are burgeoning in Washington they are being asked to support. Many of them will give that support to an administration willing to face the implications of government control...