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...unquestioning faith in the scientific tools they have pain-fully learned to use for the progressive revelation of that world to its maker-to-be, and with unquenchable enthusiasm for the value of that revelation, the college need not fear. Its future is secure." This may be too much akin to sentiment, to the inspirational to satisfy the modern undergraduate--it may, and probably is, as has been suggested but one face of a multi-sided jewel-- but, fortunately or unfortunately, it is absolutely true...
...allayed by contradictory publicity. In the third-grade of an elementary prison school, two men heralded by the press as master minds are for the first time becoming proficient in the three "R's". After this denouement, people may even believe that the radio burglar is not a sprite akin to static, but only a moron in need of a shave
Strictly speaking, of course, a tutor is a private teacher, and in summer such a tutor aids in making up work or preparing for examinations. It is a fact, however, that practically all of the men who get a job as tutor or tutor companion are much akin to the masculine from of governess. When a boy gets to a place where he is no longer a fit subject for a nursemaid, and when his parents wish to provide him with a virile and inspiring companion, they look for some one whose title is that of tutor, whose work...
...little vague as to the absolute directions in the universe. But things did not go all against him. Ever and again the champion took the offensive and jostled his opponent rudely. There was a great deal of pasting interspersed between these events. Mr. Risko took his chastisement with something akin to genius, an infinite capacity for taking punishment. Mr. Berlenbach's punishment was 15 1/2 lb. heavier, but he was very brave. In the end the judges put their heads together and said to each other and to the world, that in their judgment, in such a contest the heavier...
MISSIONARIES are vastly misundstood--even by themselves. So when Raymond Weaver from his cloistered Morningside attempts to place the spark of real life in the bodies of some soul savers at Kurodani in the Island Empire, one feels an interest akin to that aroused by a study of any community of gods or devils, not yet quite understood by the world at large...