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...small degree for the disrepute of scholarship. For one thing, an indiscriminate distribution of A's inevitably lowers the value of an honor grade--if it does not deprive it of all significance whatever. An important incentive to mature scholarship is thereby greatly weakened. What is worse, snap courses cheapen the whole character of academic work. They parody true scholarship and bring university study into contempt...
...roughly divided between bankers on one side and industrialists on the other. The argument of deflationists is that capital is taking its reduction in the form of impaired dividend payments, that the dollar buys more and Labor must take its loss. They also say a lowered wage-scale will cheapen manufactured goods, unearth new markets...
...well be a genuine source of satisfaction to the connoisseur. Both the modern trend toward mass production and the advance of education have made possible and profitable the publishing of books in great numbers. This large scale production has tended to reduce the beauty of volumes and to cheapen the workmanship. Students are apt to forget that binding, in years past, was as much an art as writing itself. A study of this kind can do much to create an understanding of artistic craftsmanship and to develop a very real appreciation of books in themselves...
...dedication grudgingly extended is a compliment neither to the dead nor to those who participate. . . . Now the American people have never been swayed by the lip of libel or the tongue of slander. . . . The foam of falsehood will soon cease to scare the timid or ambitious. . . . It would cheapen the memory of a man, most deserving, to importune anybody to do his memory a simple justice."* The association re-elected its officers: Calvin Coolidge, honorary president; one-time Senator Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, president; Secretary of Treasury Andrew William Mellon, treasurer...
...medium of a bootlegger. In that part of the world visible to the average Harvard student, Prohibition did little more than take drinking from the corner saloon and put it in the home, the college dormitories, and exclusive little clubs now known as speakeasies. True, it did slightly cheapen the quality and slightly increase the cost of liquor. Our libraries may someday be filled by methods not unlike the way we now fill our cellars...