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...leadership of Burgomaster Adolphe Max of Brussels, eyed suspiciously the new Government," A little too Catholic," was the comment. "We want a 'business Cabinet','' hissed some. The result was that the Government failed to obtain that number of votes without which no Government can exist. M. Van de Vyvere resigned (TIME, June...
...Wilhelm Filchncr, of Germany, who was prevented from attempting a polar flight with Amundsen in 1914 by the declaration of war: "I have the most complete and utter confidence in Amundsen. For a man of his vast polar experience and knowledge, no hindrances exist. . . . He knows the location of all food depots and it is much too early to begin talking rescue...
...Junior is as mature as the average Williams Senior at commencement time. That may account in some measure for the frequent inability of representatives from the two institutions to understand each other's viewpoints and attitudes toward life. But, as I said, healthy ambitions and ambitions to be healthy exist here...
Perhaps a still more valid cause is that most professors, even in the most elementary of courses, presuppose on the part of their students, an interest which does not exist. For that reason, they feel that they are fulfilling their duties if they retail the facts, in no matter how cold and dreary a manner. For graduate students, already deeply engrossed in their work, this assumption may apply, but as concerns undergraduates it is a serious fallacy...
...University. He disapproves the administrative policy for enlargement of the graduate schools. He asks for more consideration of the undergraduate body, and less attention to the schools for advanced study. In defense of the administration, it must be said that the graduate and undergraduate schools are symbolic. Neither could exist without the other. Men of the highest calibre would not be content to teach elementary courses without the resources of the graduate schools. We should lose their services. The greatness of Yale lies not in the superficialities acquired with the college or Sheff degrees. To keep pace with other universities...