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...undergraduate. . . . He is the product of a stuffing machine-crammed with facts, with information of a more or less unrelated and useless naure . . . when he has poured back enough to score his points, he is branded with an A! B.-and put on the market as a pure product. . . . It is a mere label-a standard bonded label on a bootleg bottle...
...bold and unreasonable parent offered $10,000 a year for four years to any college that would give his son a "custom-made education, a complete job to specifications," and guarantee a result "superior to the usual quantity product." According to the story, as told in the Atlantic, a certain college president lacked the nerve to accept the challenge. But Dr. Hamilton Holt, president of Rollins College, accepts it and says he will do the job for his regular rate of only $700 per year...
Coming as the product of several years of consideration, the plan is designed to avoid the defects of systems in effect at other institutions. In contrast, for example, to the Harvard tutorial system which has been adopted by so many Eastern colleges, it is not compulsory. Further, the comprehensive examinations at Harvard cover the entire field of a subject regardless of whether or not the material is embodied in the courses the student has taken. The general examinations under the new plan will ordinarily embrace only material that has been included in the courses; but, at the request...
...third class consist of four prizes of two thousand dollars each for advertising campaigns. These are given for a national campaign for a specific product or merchandise, for a local campaign for a specific product or merchandise, for a general or institutional campaign, and for a campaign of industrial products...
...water used in White Rock is taken from the company's springs, then carbonated at high pressure. Although it is claimed White Rock has medicinal properties, the company never stressed this in advertising but places emphasis on its use as a table water. Another product of the company is White Rock Pale Dry Ginger Ale which uses water from the Waukesha springs. Noncarbonated water is marketed under the name Still Rock...