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...other considerations put together. And if he cannot detect in himself a real desire to concentrate anywhere, then let him searchingly examine his heart and see if toward some one of our many departments he cannot persuade himself to feel a dislike which, if only by the merest shade, is less than the dislike that he feels toward all the others
...fast life" that he deplores. His statement to the effect that "our fathers" were of a more virile stamp is one which modern insurance statistics can easily disprove. And in view of the remarkable extension of intra and extra-mural college athletics one may read his statement with a shade of skepticism. The youth of today does indeed lead a "faster" life than did the older generation: but constant participation in healthful exercises has made this physically possible...
When patches were in style one had only to look at an English lady's face to determine her politics. Today in France a glance at a man's collar will tell you whether he is an old school royalist, and if his socks are of the wrong shade they betray a dangerous radical. Ever meticulous in matters of dress Paris was astounded when M. Painleve, President of this enchanter of Deputies, appeared at his own reception wearing a turned down collar and a disarranged tie. And when the Under Secretary of State for Aviation opened his coat and exhibited...
...superior, or that he believes it the only satisfactory system. He can not, or will not, take into account the merit of the individual student. A man who writes an "A" paper thus receives a "B" simply because several other men wrote "A" papers which are called a shade better by some superhuman mathematical genius. Similarly the border-line student goes on probation because, although his paper is in all ways satisfactory, the instructor has decided to give a certain number...
...Having found," Dr. Halley is reported as saying, "by comparing what had been formerly observed of solar eclipses, that the whole shadow would fall upon England, I thought it a very proper opportunity to get the dimension of the shade, ascertained by observation. And accordingly, I caused a small map of England describing the track and bounds thereof, to be dispersed all over the kingdom, with a request to the curious to observe what they could about it, but more especially to note the time of continuance of total darkness...