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...easy for a man who wishes to loaf to take the "grind" for the prototype of scholarship. He does this as a sop to his conscience so that he may say: "I will none of it." But the general student body is not deceived. The "grind" is recognized for what he is. So too is the student who, while maintaining his high scholarship, gives part of himself to his fellows in active leadership. No honor is thought too great...
...England, flour has been marked up in price four times in a single week. A sack of flour now costs $3.25 more than before the rise in wheat started. Roughly every 75? advance on the flour sack means a penny more for a loaf of bread. Already the four-pound loaf has jumped from 16? to 19?. First and last, it is estimated that the present increase in British bread will call for the payment by England of about $90,000,000 to foreign wheat-exporting countries...
...back to town from the quiet of Vermont hills is trial enough, without writing about town authors. Therefore, I am choosing one of the Vermont group with which to reopen my column after an ever-so-slight vacation. Sara Cleghorn has been lecturing at the School of English, Bread Loaf Inn, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. She is poet, novelist, essayist. Those of you who read The Atlantic Monthly know her work well. I had always heard of her as one of the group of writers who live near or in Manchester, Vt.?a friend of Dorothy Canfield Fisher...
...teacher has with the successive college generations of young men that he influences--and by whom he is equally influenced. And is it wholly amiss to mention his long vacations? If he is any good he uses them partly for work, to be sure, but he can work or loaf where and when he pleases and--a boon often denied the business man in summer--he can be with his family and actually get well acquainted with his wife and children...
...members of the University of Michigan, men and women, came into convocation. Their President, Dr. Marion Leroy Burton, rose to address them. Said he: "Things have transpired recently that are as raw as anything that has happened in my IS years of administration experience. You students are lazy. You loaf, you gamble,* you spend weekends in big cities, and then you wonder why we don't want you here. We don't want loafers here, and we will get rid of you as fast as we find you out. Student evils in this university must...