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Publisher Richard Simon: Drag is a wonderful thing - make use of it. ... The publishing business is hard. In the last ten years I have received applications personally from at least 5,000 young men, and I haven't given a job to one of them...
...their lives making fortunes unjustly at the expense of others; all these heard the same sentiments when they left college and supposedly, were suitably impressed. Some members of 1934 will undoubtedly be guilty of the same things. And then, so many of our learned confreres tell us today that "drag" and connections have no place in a system which is undergoing such drastic changes. Don't believe them. This is one of the chief ways in which one can get a job today; it is later that one has a chance to prove his worth. Seniors should not be ashamed...
...solid background of Harvard life and finances. The term "two-degree system" would mean more than two varieties of parchment. Its general operation would liberate the picked scholar from the toils of the more elementary courses, from the stifling contacts of the inferior section meetings, and from the drag of ordinary students and probationers. He could pick his work from all the undergraduate and graduate courses, and enjoy as much or as little tutorial effort as he might choose. At the end of four, five, or perhaps six years he would take a special set of divisional examinations, and receive...
...fitting conclusion. Here is Miss Sears' eulogy of the slain Indian Metacom (King Philip): "Metacom--mighty warrior!--mighty patriot!--they could speak sneeringly of him now that he was lying dead in the mud, lie at whose name they had quailed when life was vibrant in him. They drag that kingly form through the mire and buffet it as nothing now but an old piece of clay! . . . . Where was that 'Great Cause' now? Right before them, sunk in the mud, so they would have answered. But how little they knew!" After all, how could they have known that Miss Sears...
...goes astray. A swiler must be light on his feet, for a seal can lollop over the ice as fast as a man can run. A good swiler can skin a seal in 40 to 60 seconds, and may take as many as 120 sculps per day. He may drag his sculps back to the ship at the day's end, or may pile them on an ice pan to be picked up later...