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...twenty or twenty-five more theological schools on independent foundations which profess to maintain academic standards of university level. Below these is a successions of seminaries of lower standards which resolve themselves. Finally into little more than schools of vocational guidance for students of hardly more than high-school grade...
...feel that we need to raise our standards in regard to the requirements for continuing at Harvard. . . . Our problem is not to grade our less brilliant students more harshly nor to treat more ruthlessly those who are able but unwilling; our problem is to find ways and means of awakening the enthusiasm and interest of the lazy and to guide those who are having difficulty in one group of courses into other departments of learning for which they may be much better equipped...
...definite convictions as to the amount of money that will be necessary for the sort of public projects that I have described. ... I assure you now they will be within the sound credit of the Government Clearance of slums . . . rural housing . . . rural electrification . . . reforestation . . . soil erosion . . . highways . . . elimination of grade crossings...
...Most grade students would give you a larger prime number ... by simply adding 2 to the one shown...
...evolution of the pelvis from fish to man, beginning with the fact that fish have hip-bones-rudimentary little rods unattached to the backbone but helping to support rear fins. Further improvement of the pelvis enabled amphibians to crawl, later animals to walk on all fours, humans and ortho-grade primates to walk upright. (Once possessors of good hips, whales reversed the process, lost most of the pelvis by taking to the water...