American education subscribes wholeheartedly to the idea that only by long, arduous disciplining can real achievement in culture result. The unlucky and unwilling student finds himself faced with the necessity of forcing his emotional and, occasionally, his cortical processes through a rigorous treadmill of tedious facts collected by hordes of the uninspired. The tediousness of the material is,...

The goal of scheduling is to reduce mean delay for free! By simply serving jobs in the “right order,” we can often reduce mean delay by an order of magnitude, without requiring the purchase of additional resources. How can this be? What is the “right order” in which jobs should be scheduled? The answer depends on parameters of the system being scheduled, like load and the job size distribution....

the History, Method and Motives of Social Pathology. By John A. Ryle, M.D. Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press. 12s. 6d. This small book of 122 pages, marks the beginning of a new era in social medicine. It is the result of lectures given in America by the author. Professor Ryle stresses the need for study of social pathology, statistics, research, the measurement of health, and has a ...