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...theory behind them, which I have expounded above is childish in comparison. Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Williams and Dartmouth have succeeded, by some miracle of inefficiency, in interfering both too much and too little in their students' choice of studies. Too much--because for the first two years they suppress all individuality, practically dictating what the undergraduate shall and shall not study, regardless of his abilities, inclinations and interests. Too little--because for the last two years they let him take almost anything he wants (provided a certain amount of it is in his major) and make no systematic attempt...
...Mindful, undoubtedly, of the attempts of Kaiser Wilhelm to create trouble in Morocco, exploits since dignified as the "incidents of Tangier and Agadir," the French refused to permit German nationals to reside in the protectorate. The assent of the Reich was obtained only after the French had agreed to suppress the 12% supertax on all German products sold to Morocco...
Bishop Brent thanked Metropolitan Troianos for his frankness, reminding the delegates that they had come to find out how far they could agree, not to suppress their consciences...
...Tonio Kroeger" begins where "Buddenbrooks" ended. Again a boy in school, his first friendship and love, and then the author's actual experience, the passions and suffering of artistic life. It is not the romantic southern sky, the "Bellaza" that he cares for. He cannot suppress his northern inclinations, his preference for Denmark rather than Italy; and artist though he may be by profession, and may feel himself to be-his closest friend tells him that at the bottom of his heart he is not an artist-but a bourgeois gone astray. It is a hard judgement, but he accepts...
...Great Britain alone is preparing to suppress anarchy along the Yangtze. British naval officials have worked out a punitive scheme which is understood to have been submitted to London for approval, but which has not yet been sanctioned by Great Britain...