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...ascertain, waiting does not affect the academic work of the students. I am told by the management that a system is used whereby a waiter can put on a substitute for any time in which his academic work needs special attention, and I believe that this system accounts for the general feeling that the waiting does not interfere with academic work, or vice versa...
...harmful than if they were barefaced shameless falsehoods. They are beneath the level and dignity of any high-class journal or publication. Your gullibility in swallowing these accusations, hook, line and sinker, is unthinkable. I cannot understand how any self-respecting reporter, however careless or incompetent, could fail to ascertain the facts before putting such a story in print. It appears that this article must have been inspired from other sources, as it would be difficult to impute to your publication such a total absence of the elementary principles of decency and fair treatment...
...definitely formulated policy. The unwary student planning a year in a Continental school, who consults with the authorities in the hope of arranging his program abroad to suit them, finds that he is met with nothing but evasion and temporizing. It is quite impossible for him to ascertain what credit he will get for the courses he intends to take; instead he is loftily informed that that is a matter which can be dealt with only after he comes back, when his case will be considered. Upon his return he is somewhat astounded to find his credits unmercifully...
Both this fatuous dodging of responsibility and the perplexity arising from it are equally inexcusable. They make it impossible for a student to ascertain officially and certainly whether he is required to take an hour exam or not. To give the present situation its logical remedy, each department not only must come to a definite decision, but must apply that decision to every course and every Senior within its field...
...himself of Dean Swift, and would have visited that worthy, but his attire was so disarranged by a jar of slops flung from an upper window that he betook himself instead to Vauxhall, and rested in a quiet corner of the garden, seeing but unseen. This morning he will ascertain the views of Professor Abbott on the culture of Anne's reign...