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...general negligee of his tout ensemble would seem to indicate that he was either a maniac or a college professor...
...receives highest honors gets a degree summa cum laude. This, at first sight, may appear fair enough, but if the subject is examined closely the great injustice is at once apparent. A man who has special ability in any one line, but who is decidedly inferior in general knowledge, outranks a man of good general ability, in whom no one taste is specially developed. For instance, suppose a man who hardly possesses more than average general intelligence should accidentally have a gift for music, a thing not impossible or infrequent; he devotes himself largely to that subject...
...whole plan is a very strong method of favoring "specialists." The man who takes a general course suffers, from the fact that he did not devote himself more to one subject. It is well enough to encourage men to pursue a special line of study, but to give a man the same rank for eighty-five per cent. in eighteen hours that another man gets for forty-two hours of general work is too much of an incentive...
...operative Society will suspend its general business tonight, to resume on Jan 2nd; but book, coal, and wood orders may be left at the office during this interval...
...opinion at Princeton concerning the advisability of retaining Amherst and Dartmouth in the base-ball league is not yet decidedly formed. The general tendency is however toward reducing the number of nines in the league. Of course if it is advisable to take such action, Amherst, Dartmouth and Brown are the least desirable members of the league. The editorial in the Yale News upon the subject was an amusing one. The position taken seeming to be that Yale would not stand by and see Amherst abused; and the impression given was that Yale's authority in the matter was supreme...