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...pikers compared to their more accomplished and eminently successful mentors, who have had and still have a vast continent in which to base their operations . .. Filipinos . . . are inefficient all right-even in their grafting . . . With more time and greater chances they will yet show they can equal or even surpass the stink familiar and now taken for granted in Washington...
...University, it is more than that. At the Graduate Cdenter, specialists from six schools are "intermingling and learning from each other." In that respect the graduate facilities in Cambridge surpass the Medical and Business School plants in Boston, which are more elaborate but somewhat isolated...
...bottom of the garden, nearly 3,000 years before the birth of Christ, Egyptians of the "Old Kingdom" produced temples and sculptures that their successors could never surpass. As an example of the earliest and best in Egyptian art, Drioton picks a statue of King Khephren, the man who built the Great Sphinx. Except for the falcon of the royal ancestor-god Horus, which perches like a thought behind King Khephren's head, the portrait shows none of the symbolic attributes of royalty. "And yet," Drioton says, "such is the majesty emanating from this statue of an almost naked...
...like parents who are objective about their children . . . Some parents consistently underrate their children, not realizing that their progeny may surpass them. Others . . . insist that their children must plan to go to a certain 'big-name' college, either because the parents attended there, or because they wish that they had . . . We like parents who let their children be themselves...
Fearing that "last year we talked the much about money and not enough about charity," the Drive's directors have reffused to set a specific goal, except to surpass last year's record of $23,000. They have asked for $10 per student, which would mean a maximum expectation of almost...