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...knowledge. Mr. Conant can afford the university a plethora of great names, but unless the upward trend of the curricula is such as to foster their development within the ranks of the undergraduate and graduate body, the situation admits of defeat. Great benefit is obviously derived from collected outside talent, but greater benefit would accrue from creating at least some few of the giants by from within. Aside from the patently mechanized deficiencies of so many of the larger science courses, the callous, conveyor-belt system of teaching, and the bedraggled mentalities of their overworked instructors, no single issue requires...
...onetime Rhodes scholar in anthropology who elected to teach French in Alabama schools. In 1922 he went to Alabama College as assistant to the president, stepped into his superior's shoes four years later. At 43 he is a progressive educator with a Hitler mustache and a talent for raising money...
Nellie admits "it's still a man's world, but if you happen to be a lady with a talent for swinging the bat, what are you going to do about...
Richard Evelyn Byrd : "His real talent, as I intimately saw him, was that of a promoter. . . . I don't believe that he is a self-seeker. His presentation of self is just good showmanship. . . . A Virginia gentleman, imbued with an exploration mission in life, with the left eye slightly cocked on the profit...
...more important in his eyes is developing the talent of those who take real pleasure in the racquet games. Year after year, Harvard tennis teams have scored victory after victory, and year after year, Harvard's squash players have won laurels in countless tournaments. Yet so far as tennis is concerned, Harry constantly insists on playing for the game's sake, rather than for the sake of piling up an impressive winning streak. And those who have had the privilege of his instruction in squash never forget his emphasis on sportsmanship first, and victory second...