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...college training which this great theorist decries. But he expects colleges to work out their theories in practice, as he has had to work out his own ideas with inexhaustible patience and indefatigable toil in the laboratory. None of his results that have made history and given a bias to civilization was handed him on a tray. He had to go after what he got, and go after it hard, and keep it up after other men got cold feet and cried quits and lay down on the job. A word of wisdom from Edison comes with the full weight...
Since 1914 anything with the tag "German" has had a hard road to travel, and we may well attribute to racial bias the prejudiced, unjust, and indeed, insulting tone of Mr. Gambet's communication. JOSKPH BRADLEY '24. November...
Intellectual achievement in outside activities is always given due weight, although the danger of personal bias makes this evidence less reliable. But a student's activity in extra-curriculum pursuits is not regarded as making up for deficiencies in his scholarship rating at the Office...
...will see that Mr. Crayon had a bias against the Captain, and it is with evident pleasure that he tells of his trial and how he was hanged at Execution Dock...
...human desire for sensationalism, he is unable--according to Mr. Allen--to appreciate the proper value of the important news items, "to distinguish the A. P. dispatch from the special correspondents' forecast of conditions, and the fact story from the rumor story, or to take into account the probable bias of the paper...