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...perfectly true that we usually begin the year with one or more assignments asking the student to write about his personal experience. This is one source of content for any writer, and in my judgment, a course in English composition is not doing its job if it does not lay on the student the duty of some self-scrutiny. If the student meets this opportunity by writing inconsequential papers typified by your imaginary subject, "What I Did This Summer," I think the student must be held largely responsible for this particular failure in education...
...come to lay his weary bones among...
...least 20 explorers since the peak was first climbed (by a Swiss guide named Mattias Zurbriggen) in 1897. After a tramp through desert-like heat at the base, the climbers crawled through a rock-chocked ravine to reach the slopes. Even in the midsummer month of February, clouds can lay a treacherous coat of verglas (glaze ice) on the slopes in less than an hour. Ice or no ice, there is always the danger of an attack of soroche-high-altitude sickness. With advice from Mottet, who had climbed the peak once before, Hackett skirted the traps until almost...
When the weather is right, any Lake Placid winter tourist can buy the thrill of a lifetime-a ride down Mt. Van Hoeven-berg's famed bobsled run. He only has to lay down $1.50 and sign a waiver relieving the State of New York* of all responsibility. Since nobody on the tourist runs is out for the record and the rear crewman rides hard on the brake, the passenger is safe enough. In competition it's different...
This morning, Nancy broke the spell. There was a vice presidency open at Charley's bank and everyone knew it lay between Charley and Roger Blakesley. The strain of waiting for President Anthony Burton to make up his mind had made Nancy taut. "Why don't you ask Burton what the score is?" she asked. "Aren't you tired of waiting...