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...genesis of the college "bluff" has been traced to its remote psychological roots in the insistence throughout early education upon a prompt answer of any sort, rather than an honest "I don't know." The current Educational Review points out that a wrong answer counts no more against a student than inability to answer at all. From the beginning students are encouraged to write "something", whether they know anything or not. This dangerous facility is carried into college, and the student, trained unconsciously in this form of intellectual immorality, develops the art of bluffing to its highest degree...
...American slang is injected into the plays, plots are changed around, endings are shifted, and the plays is ruined. The endings of tragedies are changed from death to love, so that the audience will come out saying, "a kiss at the end, this is life!' It is all wrong...
...true. These plays are produced to amuse foreigners, and thus to make money. The French people do not go to them. Besides Paris is not France, any more than New York is the United States. People go to Paris and returns. They think they know France. They're wrong...
...engaged only as acting-editor of the Workers' Weekly. "What sort of a figure would I cut," he demanded, "in prosecuting for sedition as a dangerous Communist a man who could hardly hobble into the dock?" Then in his peroration he asked: "What have I done wrong? I will answer any question put by any member of the House." But the fears of the Opposition were not calmed. Conservatives gave notice of a motion of censure on the Government. The Liberals offered an amendment to the Conservative motion calling for a Parliamentary inquiry...
...Parents are too anxious about their son's physical safety these days. Its all wrong, Preparatory schools should stress winning the game. Everybody should be forced to play and play hard and regularly...