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Yes. At Alexandre Dumas, a 100% black elementary school, an emphasis on excellence, values and discipline is paying off in a big way.
Dumas is far from perfect: its students still test below the Illinois state average; its physical plant is fraying; services are bad. "They send me inferior hamburger, moldy bread, spoiled milk," fumes Peters. But Dumas, with its emphasis on bootstrap help, is light-years ahead of most black public schools...
The department's least convincing argument supporting the greater emphasis on British literature states simply that it is of a higher quality. Such a position would probably be thrown out on a campus where the British scholars did not so overwhelmingly outnumber their American counterparts, but to pretend that literature...
It is not only his youth that sets Pontifell apart from most of the commercial printing world. His press has an unusual emphasis on printing quality. "My aim is to make books that are not only physically beautiful but also enduring," he says.
. Giving significantly less emphasis to Lamont's "browsing collections." De Gennaro said that since book-stores are now widely used for browsing, "such `gentlemen's libraries' are totally obsolete."