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...intended," Professor Corwin says, "that this test shall supercede any of the present means of judging preparedness for college work. Its use will be tentative at first, and until experience has shown its proper function: How much and what aid it will give to the examiner is still problematical...
William Zebina Ripley, Harvard economist: "In Manhattan one night last week, two children were killed, and eight adults were badly smashed in motor accidents. Mary Hutchinson, 20, dancer in Castles in the Air, had both legs broken. I, proceeding by taxicab with a lady to a Waldorf Astoria function, was suddenly hurled against the side of the vehicle. Glass cut me over the right eye. My skull was not, as first feared, fractured. My companion, hurled against me, was unhurt. Next day, as I lay in a hospital, Lawyers Louis Marshall and Gilbert H. Montague (verbally) and Corporation Director Maurice...
Both suggestions, however, reveal an attitude toward the function of the tutor that is in many significant points at variance with that which must be held its ideal. Mr. Peterkin attributes to the Crimson the desire that the tutorial relationship should be "something more than a merely educational one". Such a statement as this is in itself innocuous, but when Mr. Peterkin goes on to declare that the tutor "has it in his power to influence not merely the intellectual tastes of his men but their character and their standards of conduct", he is expressing his own opinion. That...
...school is an institution pre-eminently devised to deal with intellectual things. . . . The average critic of our schools expects them to do things they were never designed to do. He expects them to develop triple-A high moral character, which is primarily the function of the home and the church...
...halls, hotels and philosophers' retreats of Manhattan. There are quaint minutiae-a sneeze in China as the possible origin of a Manhattanite's cold. There is no end of masticable thought and sharp aphorism; that civilization's aim is "to think like an angel but to function like a man"; that sexuality is either splendid or ugly, never funny or pretty, and that a man must contemplate the body of a woman closely and often if he is to preserve an image of their love; that an old waiter's face is finer than that...