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...present defective state of the art of setting examinations leads to an over-flourishing condition of the art of passing them--by means of methods foreign to the true purposes of education. The seeker of grades is a technician of the first order. Machiavellian attention to insignificant detail, introduction of quotations purposely memorized and designed to convey the impression that the writer could quote with a similar facility on any given subject, and a host of other tricks;--the pursuit of grades is often conducted with an insincerity which accounts in no little measure for the disrepute in which they...
Naturally this frank discussion of who's who and what's what at Harvard is primarily an affair of that institution, but the University is to be congratulated on having among its undergraduates those who are disposed to make clear charts for the seeker after knowledge...
...Lord, whom ye seek, shall come suddenly to his temple, said that sharp little prophet, Malachi. Had any seeker for the Lord pushed his way through the crowd of 8,000-odd witnesses and entered an uptown church in Manhattan, last week, he would have found refreshments in the basement and cinemas on the roof and a trick pony which told fortunes with stamping hoof and twitching ear-all for a small admission fee that the public gladly paid. Such were the festivities that followed, last week, the breaking of the ground for the $4,000,000 Broadway Temple, organized...
...smashed Vanderbilt 3 to 0, smashed also Vanderbilt's All-American end, Bomar. On the Pacific coast, the champion Golden Whales of California State wallowed and spouted, swamped Washington State 20 to 7 without a fluke. Oregon was 40 to Whitman's 6. Southern California, strongest title-seeker, was 21 to Nevada...
...play will not interest the jaded theatregoer who is out for blood. Neither will it amuse the earnest seeker after incontinence, sordid or suave. It has, however, a quality of ease and atmospheric entertainment that commends it amiably to attention...