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...concentration and purpose with which students in professional and trades schools pursue their studies. Evidence of this is afforded every day in the University. The seriousness and industry of law and business school men is often a revelation to the undergraduate who is bent on enjoying his "four years' loaf." President MacCracken attributes this spirit to self-interest: "The trade, the profession, the definite pursuit, beckon instinctively every hour...
...November hour examinations. For it would certainly annoy the Administrative Board if, in addition to petitions pleading weak eyes, devotion to family, and all of the other good old standbys, it had to consider the cases of any very large number of men who were trying to learn to loaf well-and had tailed...
...undercut its clientele, Freshmen who live in the Union transfer their haunting grounds in their Sophomore and Junior years. In spite of a popular impression to the contrary, Cambridge is a place where young men are astonishingly busy. The town has the distinction of providing more attractive places of loaf in, and less time to loaf in them, than any other spot in the world. And the Union is only one of many...
...fact that under prevalent conditions a major portion of undergraduate mediocrity is found among isolated groups of students who live apart from their active and energetic classmates and who never come in contact with the leaders of the classes. The consequence is they are satisfied to loaf and do only enough work to remain in College, for they do not come in contact with those who offer examples of active and inspiring leadership. In other words, in the new environment, the leaders will really lead. The entire class will be a unit and striving to fulfill certain ideals...
While it may be true that a few men who loaf through College are able to settle down and achieve brilliant distinction in the Law School, the inference from the Herald editorial that such is the usual course of events among students coming from certain boarding schools does not appear to us necessarily to follow from the facts. It would be equally logical to deduce that since only one in thirteen of the public school men received honor grades in the Law School while one in six received them in College, therefore, public school men who had distinguished themselves...