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This merely illustrates one of the cases in which a standard grade-curve must inevitably work hardship to those who are near the danger line. But the conclusion ought to be obvious. If no system can be devised for distributing grades justly and on exactly the same basis - grades cannot be fairly used to decide either discipline or distinction...
...about books. Perhaps Plato is too impersonal to arouse such a feeling; but certainly the stories which one has read become a most intimate part of one's nature. People enjoy stories chiefly because they can make themselves the heroes; one's imagination permits one to undergo every hardship, every triumph. The result is that no one can read 'The Toilers of the Sea" without reflecting some of the grandeur of soul of the hero, nor "Man and Superman" without acquiring some of the leading man's delightful emotional immunity...
...years during which he has collected rugs, he has traveled over 300,000 miles in search of his textile treasures. Some of them cost him as much as $35,000 and years of pursuit, and with the acquisition of almost every one is connected a tale of adventure or hardship. Two Seljuk " bird rugs," woven in 1550, were secured in Constantinople in 1922 and went with him through the sack and massacre of Smyrna. Hungary, Thrace, Rhodes, Asia Minor, Persia, Bagdad, Damascus-all are represented...
...official disapproval on the crowded entry list of the Open Championship. Last Summer 360 players teed off at Inwood, L. I.; the first Open Championship ever held (Newport, R. I., 1895) attracted only eleven men. The unwieldy groups attracted by the "open" feature of the tournament have worked a hardship to the first line players. Allowing three days for practice, the Open Championship consumed nine days. Restriction of the entry privilege will cut down the long qualifying period. The P. G. A. has ruled that only those on the eligibility lists of the U. S. Golf Association will be permitted...
...Granting the necessity of a military occupation, however, I don't see how that policy could be administered with any less hardship than the French are now doing...