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...good time the student will have at his institution, than to stress its educational advantages, if any. A few colleges actually do employ men as counselors instead of high-pressure salesmen. The agent of Stephens College, Missouri, acts not so much to get students as to keep the wrong ones from entering. No hospital attempts to minister to all patients. If the colleges would select carefully those who fit into the purposes of the institution rather than signing up everyone who presents himself, the field agent could play a helpful part. When he tries to find out what the candidate...
...days later Izvestia officially admitted its editorial "error," labeled the Suvinsky editorial "essentially an enemy's outburst. . . . The author of the article, who crudely distorted facts and made completely wrong and politically harmful conclusions, has been removed from Izvestia...
Says tennis' modest No. 2: "For three years Tilden has been saying that I am the best amateur. It is the only time I have known him to be wrong." With Tilden's judgment still in doubt, von Cramm and his 22-year-old doubles partner, Henner Henkel, prepared for Forest Hills last fortnight at Chestnut Hill (Mass.), where they met Budge & Mako in the final of the U. S. doubles championship, neatly reversed the two defeats they suffered earlier in the season (Wimbledon semi-finals and Davis Cup interzone final...
...which Dr. Jones was to speak, arose and prayed: "Oh Lord, prepare our minds and hearts for the untruths we are about to hear." Once in England he used the expression "I was thinking" at a meeting, whereupon a woman said: "Rufus, thy testimony was interesting, but thee does wrong to think in meeting." Once, also, he was mountain-climbing with a member of the Rowntree family and two guides, and complied with the guides' request to pass a liquor bottle from one to the other. At this Climber Rowntree stuck his Alpine stock into the snow, intoned...
Astronomers have not decided what causes stars to explode. Something seems to go wrong with the delicate mechanism that keeps the outward force of radiation pressure balanced against the inward force of gravity. Then the star throws off rapidly expanding shells of hot gas, increases greatly in brightness. Ordinary novae attain a maximum brightness about 25,000 times that of the sun. Therefore, since the difference between actual brightness and apparent brightness depends on distance, novae have provided important clues to the distances of the nebulae in which they occur. About 130 novae have been recorded-most of them found...