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...sole basis for choosing applicants. Prospective freshmen will be considered on individual standards, entrance unit requirements are to be abolished, and the approved school will become a vestigial organ in Hanover. The decision comes as the result of a feeling that the present qualifications are both impersonal and meaningless, and is intended to exert a humanizing influence upon the somewhat Prussian character of admission brochures...
...Gang and the New Gang" were actually addressed to the Mr. and Mrs. Everybody of the first three chapters, the book would have little worth; for to them, to all but the few, its tone of complete scorn and sophisticated humor would be meaningless. To be sure, Mr. Lewis uses an imitation of Everybody's "langwidge," rich in "the missis" and "guys," and other expressions of the "Capone era," but his clever turns of phrase his pungent sarcasm are his own. It is to the intellectuals, to readers able to appreciate Lewis' habitual esoterica, that he writes, and his remarks...
...worked was occupied with such melancholick reflections as might have befitted Panterias the sage, when the future course of his life was revealed to him by the haruspex; as that all the labors of the scholar, the resolutions of the philosopher, even the ecstasies of the poet are meaningless and in vain, when they confront the dark and fathomless abyss beyond. Outside, through the high shining windows of the hall, could be seen the white, jagged clouds and the blue author in which they were so lightly afloat. The sweet wind hurried in through the open casement after...
Geology is a field which offers many opportunities to gain a thorough knowledge of the subject, and yet at the same time enjoy the work. "Laboratory work," "field trips," "research," these are dull, meaningless words to describe the pleasures and satisfaction which they represent for the student who enters into Geology with a willingness to work a little harder than is necessary simply to get by. Should a student decide not to go on in this field after he graduates, he will not regret having spent three brief years scratching the surface of a deposit of facts and interesting problems...
...ever since laboratory courses were given. In science, moreover, the tutor's interest in research is a necessary part of his equipment as a scientist. It is s futile effort (in a scientific field) to separate tutors into teachers and research workers. In my opinion your question two is meaningless for a scientist...