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TWO AMKBUAN 1'OLLKtiKS
AUK tiOlNli TO 1SK.MOY K TIlK
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CAMBBIIMIK. Mass.. July 12—The
faculties oi‘ Haivard University and
Massachusetts Institute of TechiuKogy
have taken action to dispel or to a’ ay
the undergraduate hogy of final ex
and nations.
The tests which the students oi d-i
Institute underwent lust month
may be the last of the kind at **T-vY\
A committee of faculty
alumni and undergraduates have been
appointed to investigate methods of
testing the college mans knowledge
and proficiency in studies other than
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DEI* MM’MKNT OF THE INTERIOR
Alaskan Engineering C ommission
T ains leave ami arrive at Sewaui as
follows:—
^TV A. M. Wednesday and Saturday
fo» Roosevelt. Tunnel, («irdwc*d
Anchorage. A: rive 4:35 R. M. Mon
Jay anti Thursday.
Connections at Anchorage on Mor.daj
and Friday at 8:30 A. M. foi
Matanuska, Wasilla, Houston, Tal- j
kcetna, and on Wednesday at 8:30
A. M. for Matanuska, Eska and
Chiekalonn.
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hv tin* customary examination. This i
step follower! unsuccessful attempts
to have the students accept the honor
system.
At Harvard there has been no con
sul-nation of the proposal to do away
with examinations but there has been
action to ease the mental strain which
they put on the students. The sooth
ing charms attributed to music, and
its power t>> stimulate sluggish minds
to active thought, have been called up
on as first aid to undergraduates b
set with troublesome tests.
Under the direction of Professor A.
T. Pavison. university choirmaster
tpusical recitals of ten minutes each
h:i\v been given daily in Appleton
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Chapel during the examination season.
They have been held in the morning,
just before the first, of tin* day s ex
aminations was to begin. Ihe pro
grams consisted ot light classical se
lections, and proved popular alike
among men who had sat up all night
with their books and hollow-eyed and
nervous, sought rest and calm; and
among others who, after a night of
sloop, sought from the music a mental
stimulus for the tests which lay ahead.
HI5ST OIL CLAIM IN
YAKATAGA FIELD IS
FILED UY VALDEZIAN
The first oil claim to he filled on
;n the Yakataga district was received
at the U. S. Land Office, Juneau. The
applicant is A. J. Pimmond, a promin
ent Yaidoz attorney and old-time
Alaskan. The claim covers 2,.*»t>0 acres.
It is situated about two miles north of
t ape Suckling and almost on the di
viding line between t ontroller Baj
and Yakataga field andjs said to be
in one of the most promising dis
tricts in Alaska for oil development.
Two oilier oil claims were also re
ceived from the Westward. These
we e filed by Alexander Enos and
cover 2,’»(50 acres. The claim is lo
cated in the Cold Bay district.
\NS TO KLIM1NATK
thi: mm.K jiiom schools
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l'Klv'1.1 \\ July 12— Catholic news
yv»>»».s are watching with growing
icorn a movement to introduce a
ne v system of yligious instruction in
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German schools. Heretofore such in
struction has been based on the old
and new testaments.
The now plan, which was evolved
teachers of Meiningcn and recent
ly < ndorsed by the teachers associa*
t on of Thurinijja, where protestants
arc in tin* majority, would do away
with Bible study. Instead, children
during their first four years in school
would he instructed in German fairy
.ales and myths, Robinson Crusoe and
the history of the child Jesus. In the
last four years the instruction woulu
Wive to do 'V ill the worship o’ Gad
ancient peoples, the life and teach
ings of Jesus, and the worship of Cod
in Germany. More and more, the
Thuringia teachers agreed, German
myths and poetry should replace in
he schools the old testament.
“My no stietch of the imaginat’O.i “
• mments Germania, the orgen of the
Center (Catholic) paity, “can this l?
tidied religious instruction. It is thor
oughly in accord with the well-known
tei dencie of radical teachers. Gatho- |
ic.' must follow this movement with i
. ( se attention, for it threatens to ir
.ade their own schools.”
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•OV1KT GOVERNMENT M’YING
r.VRM MACHINERY IN CANADA
NEW YORK, July 12— Negotia
tions for purchase by th«* Russian
Soviet government of $5,000,000
worth of agricultural and rolling
Mock from a large Canadian firm
are nearly completed, Ludwig L. C.
V. Martens, head of the soviet bu
onu announced.
Despite denial by the Canadian
nanufacturers association that any
tf its members had had dealings
vith the soviet government agents,
Martens repeated his statement that
is representatives had been favorably
received in Canada.
NOTED ARAB CHIEFTAIN'S
GRANDSON CAPTIVE IN SYRIA
PARIS, July 12— The foreign of
fice received information from Beirut
of the arrest by the perfect of police
of Aleppo, Syria of Emir Ahmen Muk
litar, grand-son of Adb-el- Kader, the
noted Arab chief who led the Arabs in
the wars against the French in Al
giers in the first half of the nineteen
th century and who died in 186d at
Damascus where he had long been a
pensioner of the French government.
The dispatches say the arrest was
effected under odious circumstances,
that Emir being dragged from his
domicile without clothing and grossly
insulted.
General B. J. Egouraud, French
high commissioner in Syria, has
protested to King • Feisal of Syria.
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R. H. Robertson, Pioneer of the
Hyder section, died recently at
Prince Rupert. He was a native of
Ontario, aged 00 years. He was a
partner of Louis Watkins and John
Hovland in the Unicorn group. A
father and brother, residents of Ed
monton, survive him.
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