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American Students "More Responsive" He says that he found U.S. students "more intellectually curious, more responsive to any influence, more deeply charmed by everything new" than their British counterparts, and, at the same time, "almost incapable of boredom, or of more than a very surface skepticism...
...frequent philosophical arguments, commercial activity virtually ceased. The store soon became a favorite gathering place for a number of eminent faculty men: Kittredge, Hocking, Irving Babbitt, and W. Y. Elliott among others. They used to drop in to talk with Phillips about books, philosophy, in fact about almost anything. The book merchant especially enjoyed popping one of a set of philosophical problems on his visitors and drawing them into lengthy debate. One of his memorable topics was: "Is it better for a man to wear a dirty shirt on his back or to wear no shirt...
Harvard's Student Employment Office pays student typists almost twice as much as the Radcliffe Office does and Annex girls don't like...
...Abboud, Dave Combs, Mike Park. Both Abboud and Combs are capable men who worked at this weight last season. This year they are almost equal in ability...
...barometer of student reaction in New Haven over the past weekend to the Athletic Association's announcement of Harvard's new football policy fluctuated almost as wildly as New England's unpredictable weather conditions during the same three-day period...