Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hand, or who is unprepared for a request of second bluebooks during a three hour examination, that sicklies over with the pale cast of inefficiency all the admirably handled examinations that preceded him. The bluebook snatcher is armed with an indisputable destiny, perhaps, but there is no reason why, in the distribution of examination papers, meticulous thumb-counting should take the place of quick availability. October, the month of November hour examinations, is here. It is to be hoped that the rooms of examination will be proctored and provisioned with a more uniform understanding of their importance to the student...
Perhaps a word as to the reason for the existence of the proctorial system at Harvard may not be malapropos. In short, the success of an honor system invariably depends upon solidarity of student opinion, which in turn presupposes a unified undergraduate body. At Harvard neither exists. The experiments with honor systems at certain other large universities have often been far from successful, and have shown that all concerned are much happier with proctors in charge of examinations...
...past few years has arisen the notion that something is wrong with the colleges. From the volume of literature that this notion has produced one might infer that everything was wrong with the colleges. There is apparently no reason for this sudden flux of collegiate concern, just as it is certain that there is no rhyme to it. Perhaps it has come because never before have the American institutions of professed higher learning been so popular. Perhaps popularity and excellence run by contraries...
...there is a great and unhealthy bigotry. The three R's-religion, race and rum-in the order named will sway thousands upon thousands of voters. Nevertheless, organization is very important, and I look to see the Republicans win because of their superior organization, if for no other reason...
Intricate and difficult is counterpoint-"the art of adding melodies, according to fixed rules, as accompaniment to a given melody." If Author Huxley's "given melody" is perhaps the conflict between passion and reason, it is outnoised by his myriad irrelevant themes. If he has any "fixed rules," they are well camouflaged in a medley of deliriously discordant, rarely harmonious, characters-famous Artist Bidlake whose voluptuous youth has reluctantly passed into caustic Rabelaisian senility; his writer-son who flings aside a reproachful mistress for the wanton daughter of a musty scientist; a suave sadist who bullies, tortures, kills...