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...analysis which a committee from the California Institute has made of the relations of men living in the Houses at Harvard is unassailable as to truth, but fails altogether to explain those relations with reference to the purpose of the House Plan. The committee finds that while the House Plan tends to foster friendships among House members, it falls to break up cliques and groups, particularly within the Houses. If one is to judge from the plan which the California Institute has put into effect, the House Plan has been misinterpreted. The California system atompts to "foster the development...
...sorrowed because he could not use the salty swearing of sailors. He recommended that morphine be served in liberal doses at the Dartmouth college commons. And more delightful still, he divided his world into Big-Endians and Little-Endians. He said, "Beware of Tradition!" and "Damn consistency!", which explain a great deal...
...with the less-known figures that Mr. Bradford is most successful. Here the narrative details he supplies are fresher and more interesting, and he is well able to reveal an enigma at least where he cannot explain it. Discussing Talleyrand and Fenelon, two men strikingly similar in temperament, worlds apart in their actual careers, his impartial sympathy for both leaves the reader free to enter sympathetically into their characters. It is high praise for this kind of biography to say that it makes the reader eager to go beyond the information given, and study the characters at first hand...
Bang! ? went the pistol. Dr Luther shouted, "Somebody has shot me!" as Dr. Roosen and Herr Kertscher bolted. Caught by policemen they made no resistance, Economist Roosen announcing with dignity, "We will explain our motives fully ? but only to the Supreme Court at Leipzig...
Twenty-one times in the course of the hour, the lecturer expressed his regret that time did not permit him to explain various points; he would not--so he said--spoil the students' pleasure of finding out those things for himself, nor would he waste their time...