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...Mother of God, or a smooth egg? "The Mother of God," answer Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee; for no egg, were it equivocal as Humpty-Dumpty, could interest the eye by such interrelated curves as can a woman's face. How much more do these curves interest when they exist for themselves alone ? ''Let the meticulous observe," they say, "that painting, like music, can be an immaculate Art;" and they point to their graphs, parallels, locusts, wind mills, carburetors...
...flits about from Boccaccio to George Moore, takes all the "appreciation" courses, and possibly athletics. The third has no interest in the intellectual life proper, being too much occupied with the pleasure of clothes, tobacco, alcohol, the atres, clubs, and so on. I believe that all these types exist at Harvard, although it must be remembered that strict classification is specious and that hybrids also are present...
...idea that we wish most firmly to imprint in this report, is that the best solution of whatever problem does exist, lies in the creation, by the Student Council and other undergraduate organizations, of a general attitude which would look on the proctor more and more as an aid, as a special help to the student, and less and less as an antagonistic watch-dog, set over a room to find as many morally deficient students as possible...
...inexactly known, because, no doubt, it varies in extent. It consists of seaweed assembled in that very mild sort of eddy which is developed by the Gulf Stream on the one side and by the Equatorial Current on the other. Similar aggregations of weeds, though smaller in extent, exist under like conditions in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The weeds, however, are not dense. They grow in patches here and there over the area, affording food for marine life...
...extra-curricular activities, and less participation in the extra-curricular for mere name and glory rather than interest: Unnecessary work which tests nothing but submissive endurance should be removed in so far as it is possible from managerial and publication competitions. We will consistently oppose such tendency as may exist to honor a man for the positions he holds rather than for what...