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Other students devote themselves, equally barrenly, insofar as learning is concerned, to their studies. Such students, Stephen Leacock has observed, "all go humping together over the hurdles with the professor chasing them with a set of 'tests' and 'recitations,' 'marks' and 'attendance,' the whole apparatus obviously copied from the time-clock of the businessman's factory. This process is what is called 'showing results' ...It circumscribes the latitude of mind which is the real spirit of learning...
...will make their medical training easier or more thorough. To a slight degree, it will make later courses easier, but certainly anyone with intellectual curiosity has no desire to repeat courses merely because they are offered in separate schools. Time is too short to allow duplication of the program. Insofar as thoroughness of education goes, rest assured that the medical schools anticipate no preliminary training beyond the stated requirements, and therefore discuss all relevant material in far greater detail than that taught in College...
...branch here, there is absolutely no organic connection between the two organizations. Margolis himself feels that because HYD is a more militant outfit, it is less effective. Furthermore he feels that HYD support leans heavily toward socialism, while the Wallace committee is interested only in "progressive capitalism." Only insofar as they support Wallace are they allied with Margolis...
...trees; champagne parties with the girls sick in the lavatories and the young men ashamed of their fathers' wild oats; elder sons killed in duels they do not want to fight and younger sons sent off to cadet schools they do not want to attend. The story, insofar as there is one, deals with the love affair of Joachim von Pasenow and Ruzena, his Czech mistress...
...sort that have created the current dearth of tutorial. The administration views such cuts uneasily because they would impair the quality of education at Harvard. Nor would they stand up logically in the face of the fact that the return to normal enrollment will be an advantage only insofar as it can unburden the physical plant and return educational standards to the prewar level...