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Show What the Boys Thought Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh of Philadelphia Phila-delphia tells this story on a prominent prom-inent educator who one day visited one of the elementary Bchools. "The teacher asked him tf he wished to say a word or two," said Dr. Brumbaugh, 'and he did. He decided de-cided to illustrate a point lie was making by a problem In long division, the intricacies of which the class had just mastered. He put down the necessary nec-essary figures and then said: ' 'Now, let us see how maay times this number will go Into the other. Let us try six.' He tried six, and, as he Intended, six wouldn't do. "Well, let's try five, then,' he said. Five was all right, and he went ahead with his talk. "On his way home that evening he overheard two small boys with booU-bags booU-bags under their arms and beard this conversation : "'Say, Bill, did a long-whtskered. bald-headed old feller come ln4 your room today T " 'Yep.' replied Bill. "'And did he talk to your "Yep." said Bill. " "Well, so he ld to ns, but the fun-nieet fun-nieet thing, by golly, was that the old chump stumped himself on as esara- I p! In long division." " |