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...recent announcement of the research fellowship established at Harvard in the name of Jacob Wertheim. "One of them is the nature of the fellowship and the other the reason stated by Mr. Maurice Wertheim for entrusting it to Harvard. Contrary to the ideas of those who merely skim headlines, the fellowship is not an outright gift to Harvard, but a trust to be administered by the University in favor of anyone indeed deserving of its benefits, whether or not a member of Harvard. As a reason for bestowing upon the University this unusual honor, Mr. Wertheim has stated "we chose...
...specialized training for a job has certain advantages. It teaches a man to do one thing efficiently and to stick to it. Here at College one is too likely to skim over surfaces, entirely neglecting the really important things which lie beneath. The student finds himself confronted with a maelstrom of ideas out of which it is hard for him to separate the wheat from the chaff. He finds it hard to maintain his convictions when such excellent arguments confront him on the other side...
...outline and leave the rest to your reader's imagination. Kipling is largely responsible for the vogue of this method, but his followers, among them the author of "The Heritage," with the eternal tendency of all pupils, exaggerate the master's distinctive virtues into vices, and as they skim lightly over the surface of their subject, touching it only here and there, become obscure and ludicrous. Second, you must never leave a noun without an effective adjective, or a verb without a striking adverb. It is Stevenson who by his example advocates this part of the recipe; and thus...
...airy swallows lightly skim...
Above my head the swallows skim...