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...more satisfactory. It has been said that the magazine is the site of student opinion, and that it is forced to wait for the expression of this opinion; actually, it is fairly certain that if the editors marshalled and urged out the material it would be at least as exact an approximation to undergraduate thought as it is at present...
...rose, ochre and brown stone, with two domed wings and high in the centre a Jesus Tower, visible for miles. In this plant are reading, writing, game and music rooms, an auditorium, swimming pool, gymnasium, cafeteria, trade school, all with the most modern equipment. One room is an exact replica of the one in London in which George Williams, dry goods clerk, helped found the first Y. M. C. A. in 1844. The Juilliard Musical Foundation has given a fine organ, the American Bible Society a copy of the Bible in every language it publishes. Most of the building...
...electric light. Bidon 5 is a gasoline pump, "a white-enamelled pillar identical with those you see along any road in Long Island or Westchester or in front of your next-door garage-except that it stands there in the sand, in the midst of nothingness, in the almost exact geographical centre of the Sahara, stuck there like a pictorial infantile idea of the North Pole, the most lonely and isolated gasoline pump in the world or the universe...
...distribution requirement has resulted in a heavy enrollment year after year. The aim of the course may be considered two-fold: first, to present an exposition of the language of mathematics and the methods of mathematical technique; second, to discipline the student's mind in the art of exact thinking by requiring of it activities of a highly analytic and synthetic nature. Thus an attempt is made to lead a large number of men through a valuable cultural experience which will, at the same time, serve for a few of them as technical training on which to base a more...
Training in exact thought and accurate handling of apparatus is the invaluable feature of Chemistry 4 for any man in the field of Chemistry or Bio-Chemistry. It is not, however, desirable to take it when one is not planning to achieve more than a knowledge of the elements of Chemistry, for there are long laboratory hours and considerable drudgery connected with the course, and it is not required for Medical School entrance or for concentration in the field of Chemistry...