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...educators, although it is sadly unwise. And so what boots it anyhow to have anticipated this intellectual robustness in his Senior year? He must suffer the division of tastes and tasks. The dream of mature planning of his education must perish. He must still be the boy with punitive tasks to perform, and "divisionals" keep dividing him against himself. Thus conscience, someone has said, doth make cowards of us all: but the Senior is not altogether blameworthy. Conscience begins to mean nothing else than an institution in this case the institution of "divisionals...
...with the bulk of the Democrats to settle the matter decisively in Mr. Stone's favor. Following the confirmation, Colonel Ownbey, a septuagenarian, announced: "I have been denied justice and will never again exercise any rights as an American citizen. I am going back West and get my boy and we will go abroad to live. I hoped the Senate would not place the rights of American citizens in the hands of one who had disregarded them. I could not be happy here now. I don't think in my heart I could be loyal...
Coming from so long a line of diplomats, small is the wonder that Signor de Martino is able. He was born just over 56 years ago, was sent to school in England as a small boy, learned the English language perfectly and still speaks it without a trace of foreign accent. At the age of 23, he joined the Diplomatic Corps. Fifteen years later, he was First Secretary of Legation at Cairo and, in 1910, was promoted Italy's Minister Plenipotentiary and Diplomatic Agent at the same place. It was in this latter capacity that he became a warm...
...Committee's recent ruling is as follows: "September examinations, whether taken at Harvard or elsewhere, are no longer accepted as preliminary examinations. A boy who offers in September examinations which if passed will bring his total credit to fifteen units is a final candidate; but if he fails of admission at that time the examinations which he then passes cannot be used in a later year as credit towards admission...
...Willard Reed '91, principal of Browne and Nichols School, considers the ruling uncalled for. "This new regulation means that a boy will lose a whole school year because he fails one examination," he declared. "The Committee has always said that it made it a rule to consult with headmasters on such matters, but I know of no secondary school heads who were consulted on this rule. Certainly no pressure came from the schools and I cannot understand the Committee's motive. The new rule will undoubtedly cause unjust misery for many students...