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Shopping for a college elective should afford all the pleasures of commercial shopping. Look around a bit before you invest. Look over the goods on display. Surely no instructor will object to answering questions about the course he offers, or object to a silent auditor in his class. Sample the course before taking it. What do you think of the instructor? Can he give you a fresh point of view? Does his course offer good value to you? Of course it fits somebody--but does it fit you? Is it too elementary or too advanced...
...quarter-mile did they fall to score either a first or a second. Bayard Wharton and Spitz got the jump on the other runners in this event, and raced neck and neck down the first straight-away several yards ahead of the rest. Wharton slowed up a bit on the turn, however, allowing Spitz to take the lead. On the home stretch Bardes began to creep away from the rest, and, fighting all the way, finally overhauled and passed Wharton a few yards from the tape, and finishing shoulder to shoulder with Spitz. Not more than a foot separated...
...Crimson dropped almost a whole length. The Navy and Princeton were beginning to speed up their stroke fighting for the lead and the Harvard eight could not stand the pace set by the world's champions and their betters. Brown was working the men behind him to every bit of their ability and Terry was not allowing the men on his side of the boat to fall behind, but the race was too hard and every stroke sent the Tigers and Midshipmen a few inches further ahead. At the one-mile mark, the while Princeton flag went down a fraction...
...with broad stroke can quickly conjure up a picture of person and personality that lives. Lilly herself--the reader can feel all her emotions, sympathizes with her; her mather, dear bossy old soul, whose religion is housekeeping, and her lovable and gentle old father, who make a bit of money in spite of himself out of the war. Her husband, the tupication of the respect able business and fireside homebody. The scores of people Lilly comes in contact with in her trying experiences in New York--Miss Hurst's magic pen touches them for a moment, and they live, real...
...short stories is greater than in many other forms of literary effort, inasmuch as the decision is more than likely to rest, not on the method of handling the material, but upon the subject matter itself. A short story is a flash, a glance--nothing more; picturing a bit of life, a short series of incidents, of the effect of events upon the participants. Considering this, the committee has in its general selection been extremely happy. No one field of human endeavor has the more ponderous, more "literary" type prevailed entirely. One thought alone seems to have guided the choices...