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...visitors failed to produce any sort of an effectual offensive, and it was chiefly due to the remarkable punts of Dickson, rather than to the work of the "Gator" line on the defence, that the Crimson eleven was held at mid-field during most of the second half...
Under the existing rules a student who wishes to become a candidate for a degree with distinction in the field of English labors under the same sort of difficulty which troubled students of a decade ago in every field. He must now not only gain a complete knowledge of the Bible and Shakespeare--a knowledge which would seem to be sufficient foundation--but he must take three specified courses; selected from Shakespeare, Chaucer, Milton and Bacon, and Anglo-Saxon. If, at the end of his college career, he has not a complete knowledge of the earlier English writers...
...stuff!" the Babylonian reviewers must have said, when the Book of Genesis appeared in their bookstalls. To them the Hebrew Story of Mankind was nothing more than the rehash of an old Sumerian legend which they had learned in their cradles, a sort of Macbeth-out-of-Holinshed affair, lacking even the frankness to acknowledge its source...
...anguish from those who would like to devote themselves to classics and literature, and yet pride themselves on following the line of least resisiance. In answer comes the statement that those who have not the courage to continue along their chosen path, in spite of obstacles, are not the sort who would benefit by a liberal education. If this is true, why should the fields of science be converted into the stamping-ground of the University...
...second sort of price movement to be considered is the price of money, the course of interest rates. In the summer of 1920 the interest rates on commercial paper reached a high point of eight percent. From that peak they fell for two years, until in this August they were below four percent. Since then they have been rising, and it seems probable that they will tend to rise rather than to fall during the rest of 1922. If industry continues to expand during the early months of 1923, interest rates will probably advance. If they do advance...