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...makeshifts, loosening of standards, and wholesale war degrees was hastily adopted. There should be no thought of awarding diplomas to anyone who has not fulfilled all the requirements. But on the other hand, there should be no stumbling blocks in the way of a Senior who is willing to cram for divisionals at midyears and to do extra reading for special exams or, papers which equal the work of the second half-year. In addition, the College may find other ways of giving legitimate course credits--for example, 1938-39 English 'A; CAA work done before it counted for credit...
...still far from finished. Some $10,000,000 must still be raised for the transepts, crossing dome (which will soar 241 ft. from floor to lantern), central and west towers. Not until then will the original Romanesque plan of the cathedral, changed to Gothic in 1911 by Ralph Adams Cram, be completely hidden. But for a cathedral 49-year-old St. John's has made rapid progress-most of it since Bishop William Thomas Manning assumed office in 1921. St. Peter's in Rome, the only larger church, took 177 years to build. Chartres and Cologne, pride...
Forty-five students seems an unusually small number compared to the business which used to be carried on in the Massachusetts Avenue cram emporiums. But the Board of Supervisors does not pretend to do a student's work or spot his exam questions for him. Before November Hours Salmon goes on the assumption that a man can do his own work. Between November and mid-years, be expects his clients to number in the two hundreds...
More probably, a great many noncommissioned reservists will be drafted as gunners, will be commanded by chief petty officers or cram-course officers from reserve schools...
History I: "[Paul] Cram, the star of the staff, gives you an inspiring workout if you are up to it. ... [Bradley] Thompson, dull in section meetings, better in conferences, a ruthless marker...