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...ticket of admission to this field of scholarship in the Senior year is a passing grade in the written divisional examination the year before. It is just here that the proponents of the plan run a risk they have hoped to avoid, the magnifying beyond reason of the examination as such. The examination becomes something to be passed, a qualifying round to be met in the most feasible and expedient manner, for the privilege of attempting another, more specialized, task...
...motor cars whirled up to House Doom, all the adult Princes except two covered their faces to avoid being photographed. The exceptions were Wilhelm's eldest son Wilhelm and his eldest son Wilhelm, sometimes called by jocular Germans "Wilhelm III" and "Wilhelm...
...September 1, last, and after making a careful study of the condition of the Museum, I reported to President Lowell that the arrangement of the Museum seemed to me to be admirably adapted to artistic effect and to exhibition of many of the specimens, but that I could not avoid concluding that it thoroughly resembled the condition of the traditional nouveau riche's library, who had arranged his books only by the size and color of their bindings and for consequent display of their beauty to his friends, in contra-distinction to that of the scholar, whose library is arranged...
...with him, thus ending his long virginity which was to be a jibe in later salons. He became a publisher's clerk, worked ten hours a day. Nauseated with romanticism, he wrote a thousand words daily, part of a projected scheme of novels which would neither gild lilies nor avoid dung. Naturalism was being born. Literature should be scientifically aware of inheritance & environment. He would make his mellifluous name resound on the boulevards, the back alleys...
...obviously, a grave experiment, and one whose outcome will be eagerly awaited. But it is, we feel sure, a step in the direction which all progressive universities must take if they are to avoid the consequences of overgrowth and standardization. The situation at Princeton is less pressing than at Harvard; Princeton has neither Harvard's severe growing pains not its noticeable lack of essential unity. And yet Princeton cannot be excepted from the observation that our leading universities must find some method of justifying their leadership if this leadership is to remain more than purely nominal; somehow they must provide...