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...devote itself entirely to advanced students, the New Republic foresees the gradual passing of freshmen and sophomores from institutions of higher learning. Educators are beginning to recognize the change in attitude which comes over the undergraduate somewhere in the middle of his college career. The average freshman set adrift in the larger seas of college and university life falls a ready victim of the banalities of collegiatism and athleticism, and slides along a year or two, treating his courses as a necessary evil. And it is only after long exposure to scholarship that a Faustian thirst for knowledge begins...
...block was described in the inscription as the last hope of five survivors who were adrift in an open boat on August second, approximately 1000 miles southeast of Boston. The message, signed by five sets of initials, requested that Donald Murchie of Dedham be notified...
...Latitude 37.15 North: Longitude 59.03 West. We are adrift in an open boat with only a little food and water. This is last hope of five survivors of schooner Norka, eighth month, second day. H. M., M. V. W., S. L. W., L. M. W., R. E. L. W. Notify Donald Murchie, Dedham, Mass...
...must help us. You must gently steer the blessed-fool reading public away from puffery and quackery and prurient prudery. You must stand for good English. Not for me, you understand. I am settled, fixed and determined in my way, forward I hope, but not adrift. But I love the venturers who are seeking something real and better...
Undeniable as these statements may be, year after year the younger students are cast adrift in their fields of concentration without the inspiration of great minds to draw them on. This year it is worse than usual, for the catalogue restrictions have kept pace with the addition of new courses. The situation is extremely unfortunate...