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Undergraduates may be divided into two main classes:--Those who, either because they are planning to become teachers, or because they must obtain scholarships, are forced to aim for high marks; and those whose object is either a social or a liberal education. The more industrious of the latter class compose the greater number of the dissatisfied. Competition with the "professional" student puts heavy demands upon them, demands which interfere with their main purpose...
...against the fabricators of it. As a piece of art, however, the poem is smoothy done, and, like the "Cassandra", remarkably well contained. The verse-form-irregularly rhymed lambio pentameter-is a most difficult one, yet Mr. McLane manages his rhymes so skillfully that it attains the most desired object: it sounds line extraordinarily good blank verse. The description of Christ is curious, but would be true if the story were...
...very real threat of Germany. In other words, there must be some binding agreement among the nations which will make aggression on the part of any single nation mean the opposition to it of the entire force of the civilized world. Call such an agreement what you will, object that it is virtually "Article X"; it is nevertheless a fundamental necessity for permanent peace...
...reason for this exclusion? Is it that a man, merely because he is a candidate for distinction, is better able to exercise his own judgment in planning his work than a man with the same marks at the last examinations who is not such a candidate? Is the primary object of the Dean's List to induce men to try for distinction? Or is it considered that a student who made a bad start, but has since shown great improvement, is less to be rewarded than the man who has never had a D but has barely kept in Group...
...becomes evident that on the one hand our equipment is so inadequate that the members of the University are seriously handicapped is their training and on the other that we cannot get the where-withal to remedy the situation, limitation of enrollment must be for us more than an object of academic discussion...