Word: fines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fine Piece...
...your valued magazine of April 13 on p. 36, appeared under Education a story called "Spaeth to Kansas City." Needless to say it is a fine piece of writing, but it rather overlooks the scholarly achievements of Dr. Spaeth during the 31 years that he was at Princeton. It clearly enough appears that he is a most unique personality with qualities and enthusiasm, but it does not demonstrate that his academic achievements were second to none...
...wondering whether you did not do the good doctor a little injustice among people who might not as thoroughly understand his fine character as the writer of your article...
...much more of a philosopher and poet than he is an athletic coach. He is an excellent dialectician, he can skillfully fence with the most subtle minds. Besides his coaching abilities he can sail a boat most excellently and talk Plato while doing so. He was a fine long-distance swimmer...
...permissible--miserably incompetent in the performance of their duties. The rating of lecturers and their abilities is hardly more edifying but fully as enlightening as to the nature of the field. It is well to have many good research men, but that is not enough. The sprinkling of fine, stimulating teachers mark the Department as occasional oases on a desert--a desert through which a concentrator has, nevertheless, to travel...