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Unfortunately for this fictional crusade, it does not escape the standardizing influence of the type of mystery story. In the person of Moria Devens, daughter of the murdered contractor, the inevitable love theme enters to bring the story down to the normal level. By means of this amorous tie, Mr. Train holds his narrative within the bounds which has been plotted out by a host of novelists before...
...other the university, through athlete and club war give; character and tone to the college. Where every one has his chance of success and is living his life to the utmost, the distinction between ins and outs of the social clubs loses its invidiousness, becoming a merely normal expression of human differences...
...this eating before mass some innovation in Catholic observance? Was so high a prelate as the Archbishop subtly establishing a new custom? Silly idea! The esteemed Free Press, under normal newspaper pressure, which is inconceivable to the uninitiated, had made an error, an error easily forgivable when the reader reflected...
...results of these early tendencies are equally unhappy for both groups of students. If the public school man is normal, he grows sensitive over his social disadvantages. Then study becomes for him what the psychoanalysis call "a defense mechanism", an avenue of escape from his unsatisfactory relations with his fellows. He comforts himself by scorning those activities in which he cannot excel. He retreats to his room, studies with redoubled energy, and seeks satisfaction and justification in grades...
...prejudicial to the members of the group as to the college. The purpose of education, he has said, is to break down the barrier of race and draw the individual into the main stream of American life and thought, and this can be most effectively done when the normal racial proportions are preserved...