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...upon to defend this rite of Spring whereby graders are generally anonymous, grades frequently secret, and theses oftimes hidden. One traditional explanation is proferred by several uneasy English professors who recall that once upon a time an undergraduate grabbed one of their colleagues by the lapels and demanded some sort of satisfaction for an obvious injustice. Each department has a favorite explanation of its own, but professors are usually agreed that the necessity of having to explain, or even defend, a grade is an upsetting procedure...
...London, Commissioner of Dykes and Ditches, who loved his fellow man both good and bad, and found no answer to the puzzle of life but in truth and courage and beauty and belief in God." Kittredge longed to have a chance to live in an age when this sort of life was possible, a desire hinted at in Witchcraft in Old and New England, "We are all specialists now-a-days, I suppose. The good old times of the polymath and the doctor universalis are gone forever." In trying to fullfill this archaistic longing, Kittredge achieved an unusual stature...
...started college just at that time. I didn't know what I was going to do. There was a sort of aimlessness among college students. We didn't know what we were studying for." His voice trailed off, and in its wanderings came upon a world of memories...
...There's a sort of thread that runs through history," he continued, "which one might call the liberal, progressive, or radical tradition. But it must be recreated by each generation. The radical groups of the past have done good things, but they have failed to see the changes and have persisted in their same old ways. I thought the Communist Party would change, but it didn't. We put up a good fight." Thoughts of a tired fighter come home to rest...
...story of my life. I'm writing it for Thomas Nelson and Sons." He chuckled to himself. "They're the publishers of the Revised Edition of the Bible." His gaze fixed on the emptiness outside his hotel window. Then he turned toward me. "I guess it's sort of fitting that we 'revisionists' should come together...