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...grind," who labors long and alone. Different too from the versatile class organizers and politicians, who sandwich fairly able academic work into the tiny crevices left between running their newspapers and student government boards, winning votes, signing petitions, leading cheers, etc. He is called the "flash," the "whiz," the "shark," the man who can, with little visible effort, rip and rend the more indigestible portions of the curriculum into tender shreds; the man who singles out tough courses for the sheer delight of picking high marks out of them; the man, the exceptional man, who would snatch at an honors...
Often the "shark's" name is Cohen, or Levi, or Weinstein. In Princeton '23 his name was Saul Makrauer. In Yale '07 (Sheffield Scientific School) his name was Samuel B. Rosenbaum. It is the post-graduate careers of these men that is interesting, for they are usually born teachers of an efficient, 20th Century kind. This month, the opening of a new preparatory school, The Milford School of New York, was an illustration of the "shark" type's capabilities. Thereby also hangs a story about stepladders to the golden apples of learning...
...fine May morning in 1915, the German submarine U-20, cruising off the Irish coast released a. slender steel projectile into the chill Atlantic. The projectile coursed onward like a speeding shark, nestled against a tender leviathan, and the Lusitania went to the bottom...
...like skeins of attenuated umbilical cords, stretching down to them through the sea from an unknowable parent whose broad bulk rocked gently. For long periods, the monsters would sit motionless on brilliant mushrooms of coral, letting light-obscuring shoals of fish swim over and about them. If an inquisitive shark or surly moray sidled up, the monsters shuffled silently over to a cage near by, entered, fastened the gate behind them, dumbly gave back stare for stare through the wire mesh. From time to time, the monsters exchanged signs and left the bottom, risingly slowly and erect like dead fish...
...another thing can be done by the public and the fisheries?learn. Ignorance excludes many a worth-some sea creature from the common diet. Gunners, sea mussel, goosefish, shark, skates, rays, tilefish, sea robins, black drums?all are waiting to be introduced to the U. S. fish knife...