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...just picture. But that a thoughtful young man, as Mr. Childs reveals himself to be, one who is already well on the way to education and who possesses an enviable command of the English language, should see the university in this light shows that something is wrong with Yale which House Plans will not remedy. This is not the buzz of an undergraduate mosquito; it is a serious indictment of one of the leading American universities. It should be taken seriously. The Nation...
...keynote of American education is experimentation, too often without patience--that of English education is patience, with a constitutional aversion to experimentation. While highly optimistic, the average American of university training is also highly critical and cherishes the belief that there is something wrong with education as with art, religion, ethics and politics...
...trifle less chaos, a mite less disorder last week (although floods & famine continued and bubonic plague broke out in western Honan) as President Chiang Kai-shek succeeded in rallying all Chinese factions (except the Communists in China's central sore spot) to fight and resist the moral wrong of Japanese occupation of Manchuria...
...purity of the driver during the past twelve months, leave many loopholes for careless omissions and oversights when being filled out. If applicants have committeed one of the numerous possible errors, they receive a long form, on which are listed some 36 possible things which may have been done wrong. Samples of these follow. No. 17. Form MV-51 must be approved by Stolen Car Section or person authorized by County Clerk to sign. No. 24. In the case of a co-partnership, Form MV-251 must be filled out. Each partner must enter his own name...
Lillian came from the wrong side of the tracks in a small Ohio town. She was pretty, she was scheming, her ambition was inordinate. Though she liked a good time she was careful about it. When she got the job of stenographer to the town's most eligible young man she felt her foot was on the ladder. It was. Before Bill knew what was happening to him Lillian had him in a shrewdly compromising mess, his adored young wife had divorced him, and in a daze he had married Lillian. In the uneven battle that followed between Lillian...