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...strove was an admirable one. Any elimination of "vagueness, planlessness, and lack of logic" in the system of admissions is to be welcomed. And conversely, any definition of standards--provided that these standards are not made absolute and that the Masters are not deprived of a very necessary discretionary slack--is very desirable. But concentration upon criteria alone is a profitless business, for exposition of standards by no means solves the admissions question. A certain amount of injustice and error must be fatalistically accepted. No matter how definite the criteria, and no matter how reasonable, these are, the complexity...
...writer, who signed himself "W. R. Slack," grudgingly came across with a few facts. The college is "now celebrating its hundredth year of sev- teachers for their immediate tasks in the classroom...
...obvious temporary expedient would be to let students eat in the Houses in which they were denied residence. By restricting this privilege to, say ten meals a week, and by regulating the hours of eating so as to take up the slack period, the system would almost certainly be feasible...
...unjust dismissal as a young officer from a crack British steamship line. The worst of these was his marriage to a beautiful U. S. heiress, a friend of the woman to whom Spenlove tells the story. (Captain Remson's wife had been too corrupted, apparently, by the slack code of U. S. high society to understand an English gentleman.) Remson finally ended up in the South American jungle, where legend had it he had found gold mines. Actually his treasure trove was an ideal woman and ideal peace, manifesting "a character that seems to me likely to carry...
Malraux's novels have little of the slack, humble, half-awake ordinariness in which so much of life is spent, still less of the habitual round of domestic squabbles and pleasures that make peace sweet for most men. They deal with war, and usually with the vanquished; with violence, and usually with those who suffer by it. To many a reader, as a result, they seem as lurid and shocking as a street accident. This criticism Malraux answers by pointing out that these accidents do happen, that in our own time they are everyday occurrences, that he is reporting...