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...The point of view of the teacher differs too noticeably from that of the student to permit of the necessary sympathy and cooperation...

...But what appeals to us particularly about the article is Current History's statement that it "departs from its rule of refusing to print any anonymous articles" because the "identity of the writer must remain confidential...

...Such a change is certainly one of the best compliments Texas could pay to itself, and the force with which it was enunciated is gratifying...

...The manager finally came out and made his peace by assuring them that Ariosto had written the scene that way, but the victory was undoubtedly not with the forces of Cavour...

...He may scorn Middletown or Gopher Prairie, when he remembers them at all, but he does not contemn them any more earnestly than he does Brooklyn or Washington Heights...

...Sterling's inability to make juries cry or restrain his desire for several million dollars' worth of roads...

...But even those who haStreet bitually testify to their enthusiasm by traveling to Mulberry Street night after night from Brooklyn, the Bronx and Jersey, must have been agreeably surprised at the surplusage of drama at one of last week's performances...

...This despite the said Mr...

...Eventually, one might even scrape together a sufficient number to prove that an essential part of any patriotic program is an abundant supply of raw materials and industrial opportunities...

...It is reported that delegates from more than forty nations attended the Congress, which met at Liege, and that the addresses were designed to provoke fruitful if sometimes sharp discussion...

...It seems an excellent idea, but the founders of the Institute need financial assistance in order to do the work effectively...

...Finally that spontaneous corporate action of which we read so much in Latin political history took the field...

...But the citizenry changed its mind and Ross Sterling was voted into the governor's office as neatly as you please...

...IN A recent magazine article, that able writer, Maristan Chapman, grows pretty vigorous about what she calls the New York sophisticate's "The patronage of the hick...

...Well qualified lecturers are now teaching classes in nature lore, play leadership, health and hygiene, vocational guidance and similar practical subjects...

...If this supposition is correct, the sixty-four might be set down to the credit of the human race rather than of the tariff...

...He attempted to show that the law of supply and demand affects agriculture in a manner which does not parallel fluctuations in the gold supply...

...Or modification...

...RECREATIONAL direction is an acute modern requirement, but it is often very hard to get owing to the lack of properly trained volunteer Harvesting leaders...

...To date, Mr...

...A dark native of Mulberry Street arose and aimed a ripe melon at the sacrilegious paladin with such accuracy and brio that he lost both his hauteur and his moorings and fell prone upon the boards...

...The prevalence of low prices is, he held, traceable to economic and social changes which render quick improvement out of the question...

...The current offering is Orlando Furioso, which is being enacted at the rate of an episode a night...

...It is believed that a way out is offered by properly arranged lecture and reading courses, accompanied by a certain amount of field work...

...The information here dispensed would not merely have passed the Bolshevik censors but would actually have been approved by them with several huzzahs...

...This is not merely a curious interpretation of the word "moral" but also a complete begging of the question...

...In the first place, most of our intellectuals are outlanders, hailing from rural centres to which Council Bluffs or Tallahassee are metropolises...

...The Boys' Brigade Institute, 316 West 85th Street, New York, is now offering such courses and hopes that attendance will prove sufficient to warrant their continuance...

...Today the case for the Soviets is being pushed surprisingly hard...

...The parish and the communT , ity have material in the rough, but it ers needs formation and instruction...

...Chapman's) he is always ready to initiate oncoming hicks, and to view them with unjealous eyes as possible timber for the ultimate in sophistication...

...We should like to add incidentally that M. de Vuyst's league has initiated a movement to establish an Institute of Family Pedagogy in Brussels...

...If the relationship between all these and either the protective tariff or the government is not clear, the individual prominence of all is apparent...

...HAVE not read the full text of the report on conditions in Palestine issued by the League of Nations Mandates Commission, but it jn ^g seems fairly certain that this presents no it i t j essentially new information...

...As the scene progressed, this restlessness became more pronounced and defined itself as unmistakable displeasure...

...Or drought...

...They declare for repeal and a law permitting the manufacture of "lawful light wines and beers...

...Viva Papa re...

...Meanwhile the British, assigned the job of reconciling these two antagonistic worlds, are really interested in something else entirely...

...He may spare a fastidious shudder, on the printed page, for the emptiness and fatuity of social life in the corn belt, but that is as nothing to his picture of the monotony of West Side night clubs and Village speakeasies...

...In Texas, for example, the Fergusons had such a lead on the The Public rest °^ ^e ent"es m tne ^rst Primar7 R „ that not a few shrewd newspaper men e were looking forward to continued prosperity for "Pa" and "Ma...

...When the daughter of Mark Hanna got the nomination as Republican candidate for the Senate, she was almost as dry as recent weather around Effingham...

...The in Belgium , £ %_ . , , . 6 work of preparation for this was shouldered by M. Paul de Vuyst, a Belgian who has long since been active as director of a league which fosters home training...

...During the early stages of attention given any problem, the outlines look simple and people are always ready to hazard a more or less shrewd guess by way of diagnosis...

...Designed to reveal ^ .' the beneficent effects of the protective Opines . . . . , ^ . . r system, it enumerates sixty-four citizens who are believed to "control" the country...

...Finally, and most importantly, our sophisticate at his worst is a hospitable soul...

...The origin of Genus this idea that our self-confessed intelSophisticate" lectuals look down upon outlanders with special scorn and pity, is a mystery...

...Yet it is only when one considers Mr...

...Even though he has tried hard to forget his native hickdom (the noun is Mrs...

...We sense the necessity for thinking hard about Russia in this fact especially that pressure is coming from groups which refrain from stepping into the open...

...1 HE patrons of the Italian puppet show in Mulberry Street are accustomed to getting their money's worth, and a bit over, from that colorThe Pope fully staged and intensely individual enin Mulberry tertainment...

...Then we come to the argument: "Where our interests are at stake, we may find it our moral duty to overlook the collective heresy of the Soviets and to tolerate their naive desire to convert us from the error of our capitalistic ways...

...Parish work among boys is now more than ever needed...

...Then details appear, facts pile up, and men settle down to a scrutiny of cells and organic activities...

...The Arabs adhere to the principle of self-determination and to a keen desire for such plums as the climate affords...

...Nor does it seem at present very strongly disposed to confront the major problem, which is the presence in the Holy Land of three incompatible powers with aims totally at variance with one another...

...k That is a genuinely hopeful sign...

...It is true that the note of derision is fairly constant in their social allusions, but it is a universal derision...

...The finals will be interesting...

...McCormick and Mr...

...while the audience lustily supported this demonstration with the rising chant: "Viva Papa re...

...Zionism wants a home for Jews—not really a nucleus of its best energies but a kind of sanatorium and model farm...

...IF THE economists assembled recently at Cornell University to discuss the present agricultural depression accomplished nothing else, they at Tendine the ^east Proved that they did not agree...

...At present she is fortified against any possible change in the barometer by a triple referendum according to the outcome of which, it is hoped and declared, the Republican standard-bearer may regulate her future conduct...

...At Cornell the classical economists, many of them British, contended that the ultimate cause of the trouble was monetary stringency attributable chiefly to a shortage of gold...

...Students who do the work assigned regularly and faithfully are rewarded with diplomas...

...Then society can proceed with satisfactory remedial actions...

...Probably they were all simply born with ability which they could put to good use in a country where large-scale manufacturing and merchandising operations were waiting for someone to start them and carry them through...

...1 HOUGH Belgium, during this centennial year, has played host to many a convention and gathering, yet possibly none of these was as interesting Education or significant as the Fourth Interna• n , . tional Congress of Education...

...That is in keeping with an Illinois referendum already on record...

...TV*- What decides is not a calm scrutiny of on Moscow iU ., , . ., c 7 the evidence but the pressure or propaganda, one way or another...

...So much is to be said for this point of view that the tendency among American economists is, apparently, to accept it...

...E. G. Nourse, of Brookings Institute, refused on the other hand to attribute great importance to the monetary argument...

...As a rule the courses in boy or girl guidance offered by educational institutions are of little value here because they aim to train professional workers...

...Lewis and his fellow Democrats have the advantage of consistency—and canniness...

...The only thing that can positively be said about it is that it is not true...

...And that would mean something...

...Meanwhile one of the most interesting battles now in progress—the debate between Mrs...

...But the Commission itself was not sufficiently realistic to foresee this fact, holding as it did until the summer of 1929 that Palestine was the best of all possible worlds...

...This would serve as a centre for efforts to awaken international concern with "the methods of home education, which have been so sadly neglected...

...This is a plausible and useful theory, one thinks, and the increasing attention now paid it sufficiently demonstrates its importance...

...Lewis in Illinois—is significant in another way...

...Why not sixty-four great men who will demonstrate the beneficence of the American school system ? Or another list to show why every other nation ought to eat corn flakes...

...Most of the stress was laid upon the importance of the home as an educative background and influence, but the delegates also gave close attention to resumes of recent scientific findings bearing on the mental life of children...

...one of the best ways to get it done is to develop volunteer leadership...

...When the puppets began to depict the scene in which the haughty Ramon shakes his fist in the face of the Pope, a stir went through that very large part of the audience born to Ariosto's immortal tongue...

...To miss this fact is to miss the whole character of the sophisticate...

...Doubtless the blight which has settled upon rural areas throughout the world will some day be analyzed...

...W HILE we have never attached much importance to any of the sayings of former ambassador James W. Gerard, the spectacle of his now famous Mr Gerard ^st IS engr°ssing...

...It is true ^ that the British are criticized for various failures — inadequate military strength, an inefficient intelligence service, procrastination in settling the status of the Wailing Wall and other religious shrines...

...The point at issue is surely the effect of credit advances to Russia both in so far as the American investor is concerned and in so far as the social stability of Europe is involved...

...But who still believes the British have ever felt the urge to be abnormally altruistic ? &UCH matters as whether or not the United States should accord the advantages of recognition to Soviet Russia are seldom handled in a manner All Eves commensurate with their importance...

...True enough, the charges are well founded even if based entirely upon the fact that the Arabs rather suddenly took to knives and guns...

...These last in turn can hardly be expected to recruit a volunteer staff...

...Gerard's omissions that the full significance of his idea is manifest...

...Here are fourteen bankers, thirty-six business executives and manufacturers, eight newspaper and motion-picture men, two labor leaders...

...A typical sample of current spokesmanship for Russia may be examined by turning to the leading article in Current History for September...

...A perfectly altruistic government might conceivably succeed in Palestine...

...Shall it be of Volsteadism...

...Everyone familiar with the excellent achievement of the Boys' Brigade and its director general, the Reverend Kilian Hennrich, will realize the significance of this opportunity...