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...subject of competition in the modern public school. After all, said he, "only the best football players are members of the varsity squad . . . There is competition for the cast of the annual play ... It seems that quite a different view of the natural desire to excel applies in the English, algebra, history and chemistry classes . . . We have exalted the average man. We have made it appear that the middle of the scale is the appropriate place for Americans to stand...
...Wollope: A region of superior cultivation-in what branch of science do its gentlemen excel...
There will be resistance to a World Economic Policy-at home and abroad. But economics, a field in which Americans excel, is a battleground which the U.S. might gladly choose to fight...
...Marx was violently controversial in Jerusalem, for a group of remarkably well trained Marxist debaters was in the student body, and the left-wing press soon began to attack him. But Taubes had to admit that the Communists in Israel have a uniquely trained cabal of students who excel both in study and in debate...
Huntington emphasized that conservatives are skeptical about the worth of economics, "the one field in which liberals excel." Political and moral exertions, such as national security and defense, are more important to them he said...