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Booth of Johns Hopkins won the race in 32 minutes and 10 seconds, a record for the Van Cortlandt distance. The order of the first nine men after Booth is: Bright of Carnegie Tech, Raymond of Maine, Hillman of Maine, Case of Syracuse, Master of Georgetown, McLane of Pennsylvania, Powell of Rutgers, Middleton of Syracuse, and Schmidt of Columbia. It can be seen that many of the colleges which had a runner in the first ten did not place in the final score. This is a result of the intercollegiate ruling that five men from each college must finish...
...tell the teacher, the specialist in thinking, at what conclusion he must arrive is as absurd as for the patient to tell the doctor what kind of medicine to use. This doctrine is all right so long as the teacher remembers that he is the teacher and not the master of his pupil's mind. Let him advance his opinion together with the opinions of others on the subject and leave the pupil to judge. Than this nothing could be fairer...
...bare three-hundred and fifteen pages, the whole achievement of Classical Greece is an ambitious undertaking, more so, one feels, even than a History of the World, because, where such a History may skip, or may state bare facts and drift on, here one must stop and interpret master achievement in universality. War, Politics, Philosophy, Economy, Letters, Art, Trade, it is like taking "all mankind" for one's business...
Many lecturers on music illustrate their remarks by playing some instrument, but usually the rendition of these illustration numbers is markedly inferior to the standard of a master of the instrument. Madame Landowska, however, uses the harpsichord with a truly artistic style and effect...
Zimmerman holds a master's degree from the University of California, received in 1918, and last year held a Thayer Fellowship at Harvard during his third year as a resident student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He served also as an assistant in the Department of Philosophy...