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...steering a Freshman section through the rocks and shoals that beset the approach to analytic geometry, or in guiding a graduate student in his research, he had an unerring instinct for picking out what was essential and vital, to the exclusion of the trivial and unimportant. His mathematical judgment was unerring, his advice on scientific questions was absolutely sound. No pains were too great to be expended on any student, his pupils had always the first claim to his time, and no one who applied in him for aid was even sent empty away...
...House aims especially to reach the 200 foreign students who are for a year or two the guests of the University while they acquire a knowledge and an opinion of "American ways." When these students return to their native countries they will carry either a favorable or an unfavorable judgment. The Brooks House aims to present to them the kindlier aspects of American life. Professor, American students, and American homes of refinement are brought to these strangers, with the inevitable result of an increase in mutual understanding and friendship. The sympathy thus engendered is an essential contribution to the establishment...
...Association. Its work is delimited by no creed, denomination, color, or race. It functions effectively in the University and the community, and at the same time, it does not over look the "stranger within our gates" who will soon return to his native land with a favorable or unfavorable judgment. In a word, the far reaching influence of Brooks House is another expression of those qualities which made Phillips Brooks a community...
...that many parts of this collection of humorous articles have appeared in Punch is to pay tribute not so much to their exceptional quality as to the excellent critical judgment of that most precious of all periodicals...
...competitions for election to the Board last twelve weeks. Experience has shown that this length of time is necessary; if those who wish to become editors were not given this long period in which to show their abilities--and their defects--there would undoubtedly be errors of judgment resulting in two things. The unsuccessful candidate would feel that he had not been given a fair trial, and this might be the case. Conversely, a candidate who had been chosen might prove a liability instead of an asset to the paper, so that the editors would be justified in feeling that...