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...undergraduates, if they have less intellectual discipline than the more studious Oxford men, are more keen, alert, inquiring, and equally stimulating to their teachers...
...XIII (who, while he was papal nuncio in Brussels, had noted the young priest), conceived the idea of establishing a chair of philosophy in the University of Louvain to counter-balance the disarray of ideas prevalent among its students. For this professorship, all praise and recommendations centred in the studious priest, Desiré-Joseph Mercier. To Rome he went; conferred with many, including Pope Leo himself; outlined a Thomist program of scholastic philosophy with such clearness and understanding that he won quick approval. At Louvain adherents of the new professor feared he might see too many vacant benches...
Stoughton Hall--1, Chinook; 3, Joe Studious; 2, 4, 6, 8 to 16, Jamie K. Ginger; 17 to 32, The Gentlemen Rankers...
...light of your career since graduating, what in your college education appears now to have been of greatest value to you?" The replies comprise an almost limitless variety of benefits,--such as "training in Investigating a subject", "mental, moral, and physical a training", 'contact with faculty members and students", "studious and orderly habits of thought", "knowledge of human nature", "responsibility", "general culture", "general orientation of the different branches of knowledge", "labor, determination, patience, courage, and independence of thought", "intellectual awakening", "the advantage of spending four years in a thoroughly democratic society", "the knowledge that the qualities of honesty, courage, chivalry...
...cake of ice and an electric fan are all right as long as they last, and a certain number of showers at strategic intervals are not without their good effect, but in the feverish heat of preparing for examinations all that the studious sufferer can do is grin and bear it. That and acquire a shot-gun to be used on the self-appointed humorist who says: "Is it hot enough...