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Philosophy A could be a course to challenge the intellectual curiosity of all but the most sluggish student, but succeeds only in bewildering the few who can manage to maintain interest in a large and poorly managed course...
Without distinction between honor and pass degrees, colleges must rest on a single standard for fitness, and it is the excellence of each college which determines the rigidity of that graduating standard. To maintain it many men are deprived of the pleasure of working at a college level during their freshman year, to achieve the first steps of Parnassus which their preparatory schools ignored. Present educational conferences regularly allot one day to discussing the problem, and their conclusions are never sanguine. Any lowering of the barriers to admit men, however attractive and promising personally, who must be laboriously assisted through...
...should provide for these men. But, disregarding the physical difficulties of a rapid expansion, the services involved would cost a great deal of money. And in the minds of any college governing board, the responsibility to regular undergraduate and graduate students, a responsibility which it is infinitely difficult to maintain intact in times of depression, is more urgent from the point of view of proximity and at least equally urgent from the point of view of social welfare...
...Little Entente is firmly resolved to maintain by all possible means all the territory...
...trip down, one of the pilots told an acquaintance, two cylinders of the port motor had repeatedly cut out. At times none of the motors of the old plane, once grounded by the Department of Commerce, had turned up enough revolutions to maintain altitude...