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...usual story, and he always maintained a true dignity about him. He had actually accomplished much in his 69 years. He came from Exeter to the Harvard of the 1890's, where his pattern coincided with the aesthetic movement of the day. Editor of the Monthly, Pudding, Signet, O. K., and the like--these are the matters of the record. He is supposed to have made Phi Beta Kappa without ever taking a single lecture-note. But what he liked to remember best was the time they entertained Anna Held in Dudley Hall, when the champagne flowed and the marble...
Dean Landis has explained that there are several factors which make it necessary to reconsider the existing pattern of legal education. Among these are the increased complexity of private and public law and the tendency in most colleges today to require students to concentrate in some special field in their last years in college...
Davey's hero is Philip Bentham, an upper-class young man whose life he records from childhood through marriage. The book repeats the inevitable pattern of all such novels: parentage, early memories, school, pangs of puberty, the awakening of the mind. This part of Davey's book has been done much better, and too often, before. Bentham marries at 21, and the book then becomes an original account of a young, sexually violent, emotionally tortured marriage, and of its breakup. The principals are sensitive, intelligent and real, and Davey handles them the same...
...just got to assume, you and I, that we can make ourselves heard, that the pattern won't repeat 1917. There's so much to be done, in housing, in education, for the health of the people. The real defense job of the country is ahead of us. Do you really think you can work for peace in the army...
...Freshman year here Sleeper saw an attempted trisection by means of straight lines and knew that such a means was impossible. Searching for the error of the method, he discovered the inadequacy of the straight line and also hit upon a logical pattern resulting in a locus curve which would accurately trisect any angle...