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This excess of energy has a detrimental effect on the studies of those performers who do attend Harvard, especially if, as frequently happens, they are appearing in one play while rehearsing for another. Like any other extra-curricular activity, dramatic work takes time, but unlike most other activities the expenditure can not be spread out evenly through the year. When a production nears opening night, rehearsals get longer and more exhausting, sometimes lasting from six in the afternoon until two in the morning. As a result gaps which are difficult to repair appear in the school work of the student...
This is not to say that all the ideas expressed in this book are likely to upset the reader. On the contrary, it is only at the moment when one disagrees with them that Wilson's views suddenly appear too extreme. He is generally convincing, always interesting, and filled with fascinating bits of information gleaned from a long lifetime of looking into all the various areas of human activity. His explanation of the "mystery" of the Russians, however valid, offers new points of view on a topic that is of deep interest today. The section of the book devoted...
...Entreves finds in the U.S. the heritage of the eighteenth century. Europe, he believes, has grown jaded and disillusioned, and, prima facie, Europe may appear to American eyes almost Machiavellian. America, he maintains, still believes in the "nobility of savages" and the potentiality for human sincerity. Like the eighteenth century, the U.S. contains the qualities of optimism and the defects of naivete...
...raised in the next three days will pay for the student's room, board, and expenses, and it is expected that the College will be able to provide the remainder of the necessary funds through some sort of scholarship aid. The granting of this aid would appear to be certain, if a student of reasonably high scholastic standing is found...
...choice between preparing for tutorial or studying for the encumbrances which automatically come with a grade system--term papers, hour exams, finals, generals--, it is only the powerfully-willed student who will choose the former to the detriment of the latter. That a few of these students do appear is a testimony to themselves, but not to Harvard's curricula. The lure of grades, however, is not so much a mania for the marks themselves--at least, we hope not--but rather a desire for what grades ideally should provide: an evaluation of the extent to which a student...