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...desired to sacrifice itself for something that was worth while, but that American colleges have by no means wholly succeeded in making their students feel that the intellectual life is worth while. I referred to a committee which in 1903 found respect for intellectual attainment at a very low ebb at Harvard; and added that the condition has since been much improved by the general examination and the system of tutors...
...blue prints, surrounded by draftsmen and tidewater inspectors, in an office on Campobello Island near the head of the Bay of Fundy. About the island and up into bottlenecked bays, the fabulous tides of Fundy swirl in and out unceasingly, marking a difference of 27 feet between flood and ebb...
...this dubious period of the year, the sporting writer is inclined to go out and shoot himself to make news. Hockey and winter track are memories; baseball is yet to be born; athletic interest has reached its lowest ebb. The sporting pages of the daily papers must be read with extreme suspicion at such a time, for all sense of proportion and propriety has been discarded...
Equally unjust is the system whereby the grades in a course are averaged; the average, be it 82 or 56 is taken as a "C" medium; and marks are announced which give no indication of individual accomplishment. Fortunately, this second evil seems to be on the ebb. The first; however, is rising steadily, and deserves all the condemnation that can be heaped upon it. The grade must be made to depend not on the relative position of a student in an arbitrary scale, but on his absolute merit as displayed in his work...
...peerage had been offered to Mr. Asquith, but he resolutely refused the honor; for to enter the House of Lords' powerless debating chamber, would have been to commit political suicide. At the age of 73, however, and with the fortunes of the Liberal Party at their lowest ebb, the barrier to the Lords was obviously removed. Were it not that he was opposed in principle to accepting honors for himself, the matter might rest there; but, as London club talk had it, his last scruples were overcome by his dynamic wife...