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Astor, of the Fogg Museum, is used to better surroundings than Sarah. His easel length of German police, bred, as his name indicates, in the luxury of the more expensive paintings of the gallery, has a supreme confidence that Sarah can never attain...
Similarly the degree with general honors is nothing more than a consolation prize for the grind or the dilettante who is unable to attain honors in his field of concentration. The knowledge that a cum laude can be had for honor grades in nine subjects is bound to be a detriment to the standard of work done in tutorial and an obstacle to any attempt at voluntary labors. It also fosters a reluctance to try for honors in special fields and diminishes the importance of the thesis and divisional examinations which are the culmination of the concentration plan...
...sound convictions. The all to familiar phrase "Some say this and some say that" is distinguished by its absence. The lecturer attempts to present history in its reality and succeeds admirably. The one blind spot in all this realism is that ideals and ideas are perhaps unduly deprecated to attain...
...leave no room for this notion of subordination. Those premises are essentially this; that the University had fostered too long the acquisition of knowledge for credit's sake, that ideally the University should encourage real intellectual interests. To date, the tutorial system has been a systematically discouraged attempt to attain the ideal. It has been hedged on every side by an old and tenacious order, by an unrepentant and deep rooted course system. And yet, even under these conditions, it has made large advances toward the ideal. That it has done so is a fact that points unequivocally...
...consider Bobby Jones to be the greatest golfer that ever lived. There is no shot on the course he cannot, or rather could not, play to perfection. Whether he will ever be able to attain that peak again remains to be seen. George Dunlap, formerly of Princeton, and present holder of the National Amateur title, and Johnny Goodman, National Open Champion, are the best of the younger group of golfers...