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Wilcox's report showed how the Independent Study program had its origin in the "rate-reduction" system, which allowed students who had taken five courses in a previous term to take fewer than four courses so they could study for general examinations...
...allotted three score and ten, and did hardly anything else towards the last, his dying words were, Tell them that fellow was right. It can't be done. I only got up to-' And there Uncle Giles stopped counting." There is a deadpan investigation into the real origin of those statues of Confederate foot soldiers that decorate the central squares of all Southern small towns, and why they so much resemble the statues of Garibaldi in all small Italian towns: seems there was this enterprising Italian sculpture salesman with fancy clothes and an engraved calling card...
...conspicuously in one of history's last great cavalry charges-Churchill also turned out excellent books on the fighting. He had honed his style with extensive reading: Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Macaulay's History of England, Plato's Republic, Darwin's On the Origin of Species, Aristotle's Politics. By 1899, he had achieved such success as author and correspondent that he resigned his commission, went off to cover Britain's war against the Boer settlers in South Africa. His exploits in and out of Boer prison camps were so dramatic that...
Admission to the limited number of places "is now decided completely on the basis of entrance exams," Tigyi added, "but two years ago such factors as class origin gave an advantage to students of modest descent...
...that centers on "a personal appropriation of one's own rational self-consciousness." Lonergan's viewpoint is inherited from Aristotle and Aquinas, but has been expanded by Kant and Freud. Using a vocabulary uniquely his own, he has written a general field theory of the mind-the origin and nature of human insight, how it relates to its various forms of expression, whether in the formulas of the physicist, the word pictures of the poet, the concepts of the philosopher. Insight, say Lonergan's followers, spells out the possibility of a transcultural philosophy that would allow thinkers...