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...feared sufficiently by these persons to cause them to stop their sex-criminal tendencies. But, if they knew that after the first offence they will be castrated, and placed in a working institution for life, they will at least migrate to some country that is more kind and lenient in the treatment of their crimes. There is nothing these criminals fear more than castration (this does not mean simple vasectomy but removal of the sex glands) and a life sentence which would have no release for good behavior...
First, the efforts of the various instructors should be directed toward the field in which they are most qualified. In that way the same man would correct the same question all the way through. Every student would be judged from the same standards, whether they be strict or lenient...
...made a significant contribution to the world of learning or who had performed some especially laudable deed in the service of humanity. As learning became more commercialized during the nineteenth century and competition between the universities keener, the requirements for an honorary degree became ever more lenient, until the present spectacle of politicians, rich suckers, and back writers receiving honors from the colleges should disgust any one with the slightest pride in higher education...
...great boom," although of 581 U. S. colleges, 436 forbid students to drink at all, 105 have restrictions, only 40 have no special rule. Stanford severely provides that "the possession, transportation or use of intoxicating liquors ... in the university shall be grounds for expulsion." Perhaps the most lenient administration is Harvard's. Students may not only drink what & when they like, but they may charge cracked ice and soda water on their term bills. Princeton men are not allowed to drink in their rooms, and Princeton's eating clubs have a gentleman's agreement with the administration...
...first week of New York's Metropolitan Opera traditionally gives debutant singers an occasion to be heard, boxholders an occasion to be photographed, critics an occasion to be lenient. Critics did not have to be lenient when, on Dec. 21, Manager Edward Johnson opened the season with a rattling good performance of Die Walkure. They were unable to be anything but enthusiastic when, two days later, Kirsten Flagstad sang Isolde with the miraculous freshness they had learned to expect from her. They were grateful to Manager Johnson for brushing up the ragged Met orchestra. When he began last fortnight...