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Out with Social Climbers. From that launching pad, Bagwell became a sought-after speechmaker (about 50 per year), joined every civic and scholastic organization in sight. He got into the charmed circle of the Republican Party by phoning friends, who phoned other friends, and their powerful support sent him to...
Since Exeter and Andover are nearly academic twins, it is tempting to suppose that these syndromes are just the results of big intensive boarding schools. But what is attributed to the individual schools is actually neither confined to their graduates not universal among them. Moreover, the two cases, though parallel...
Disappearing Soul. God and the soul are hypotheses; so were evolution and the atom, but these two are now theories "with high predictive value and practical applicability." Whereas "the soul-hypothesis, after being promoted by the scholastic theologians to the dignity of high theory, is now increasingly failing to account...
Despite occasional critical attempts to rescue him from the juvenile field, Cooper has never really recovered his reputation. For all the journals' odd historical interest, Compiler Beard seems to have performed his scholastic labors in defiance of the Clerihew:
No. 1 in the U.S. Since 1950, Keables' students have triumphed in the nationwide Scholastic Magazine writing contest with 20 first prizes, twelve seconds and 21 thirds. Last week the record was even more impressive. With 23 winners, Denver became the nation's top high school-writing city...