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General Wood: "I hope they'll hew to the line and let the chips fall where they...
...Surrey dunes, England amused herself with her annual investigation into the idiosyncrasies of the old- fashioned gutta percha ball. A notable group of players, including long-hitting Cyril Tolley, " ancient " Bernard Darwin, Roger Wethered, C. V. L. Hooman, E. W. E. Holderness, conducted experiments. Wethered managed to hew out a 77. Tolley, who can drive over 300 yards with abnormal rubber cored ball, did little better than 200 with his gutta percha pellet...
Preceding the dean was Professor Zeehariah Chafee L. '13, who gave a few hints to the men as to hew to do the work, and stressed the necessity of reading the cases first and studying the lectures second...
...syllabus represents the epitome of "knowledge served on a silver platter." By its use, the average undergraduate can temporarily absorb and entire term's work in three hours and, entrenched in this manner, successfully thwart the parries of the most despotic "prof." With the examination past history hew can then seek new learning in another field, entirely unhampered by a brain loaded with other ideas. And thus the four years pass most enjoyably. --Daily Princetonian...
Such a man was Professor Wendell. He always taught most effectively when least conscious or deliberate in his teaching. With his flawless taste in letters, hew was the surest possible guide to his students. Always he pointed them surely and directly to the best. With a gift for whimsical humor to sharpen his judgement, he invariably carried the interest of his students with him where-ever he chose to turn the shafts of his penetrating criticism. Ridicule was his favorite weapon for the banal and he had no mercy for the pious shams, the stuffed dummies that persist...