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Freshmen and Sophomores may meet the French reading requirement with a grade of 594 or higher in the French placement test. This test will be held from 3:30 to 5 o'clock Friday afternoon in Emerson D. The two hour French reading exam for Juniors and Seniors will be offered from 4 to 6 o'clock Monday in the New Lecture Hall...
...Lowell-who preferred being called "Mr." rather than "President"-began at once to remodel Eliot's Harvard. Eliot had built up a distinguished faculty but had let the undergraduate college slump. Under Eliot's famous system of free electives, many Harvard undergraduates chose snap courses, thought any grade higher than C ungentlemanly. Snorted Lowell: "The B.S. degree is a certificate not of a man's mastery of science but of his ignorance of Latin...
...many Indian papers are printed in English. By watching the British press, Indians long ago learned that an unfettered press is a steppingstone to freedom. Because they had good British newsmen as models (Rudyard Kipling joined the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette in 1882), Indians grew up to be Grade A journalists, dialectically skillful, intensely nationalistic...
...LIFE THAN THEY WILL MAKE ON THE LONG, COLD VOYAGES TO THE ARCTIC OR RUNNING THE GANTLET OF "BOMB ALLEY." THE "ROUGH AND RAMBUNCTIOUS . . . 13-WEEK TRAINEES" SEEM TO ME, AND I HAVE HAD OVER 40 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN HANDLING AND JUDGING GROUPS OF MEN, TO BE EXCEPTIONALLY HIGH-GRADE REPRESENTATIVES OF YOUNG AMERICA. THEIR CIVILIAN STATUS DOES NOT PRECLUDE DISCIPLINE. THEY DO NOT THUMB THEIR NOSES AT M.P.S. THE TRAINING STATION HAS ITS OWN POLICE SYSTEM WHICH OPERATES EXACTLY AS DO THE NAVAL AND MILITARY POLICE SYSTEM...
...sailing vessels, good violent storytelling, and wild Irish prose. In The Gaunt Woman his triple talents are contributed to the war effort with a driving energy that sometimes bruises the story and the prose. But the book as a whole has the glow and momentum of a particularly likable Grade B movie...