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...honors candidacy. But why institute independence in the senior year? Discarding hour exams and some essays in the junior year curriculum will not prepare the student for a courseless senior year. Removing grades is not so much the aim as making the study more vital, and grades are a symptom as well as a cause of learning's failure to excite...
...holds his breath while descending, he creates a low-pressure pocket in his lungs: his blood is at a higher pressure, and blood vessels (especially in the lungs, but also in the eye socket and ears) may burst. This will cause the spitting of frothy blood-an alarming symptom, but in this case not likely to be fatal...
...modification of his own vision is impossible. Instead, he hears, classifies, and reacts to the ready-made categories, ad infinitum. Loneliness is a narcotic, and like a narcotic we find it very difficult to escape, despite our pain and distaste. The incapacity to read is, of course, only one symptom of the general addition to the self, a single phase of the incapacity to listen either to lecturers or poets, or friends, or lovers. And so he finally writes lyrical ballads to the existential dilemma, or becomes schizophrenic...
Manhattan Composer Henry Brant is flute-prone. When he spots a vintage model he has never seen before, his eyes glitter with excitement and he examines the old vented tube with the fervor of a doctor hunting a symptom. "Wow," he will say in wonderment. "Look at that plumbing!" Then he places mouthpiece to lip and, if the instrument is not too leaky, ripples out a modernist roulade. One of Composer Brant's finest works is a fond flute dream called Angels and Devils, a concerto for flute and flute orchestra. Now it is on records, soloed by Frederick...
...Eastern universities, has been the fact that the conscious expression of any belief which is accepted is regarded not as realism but naivete or weakness. The tough anti-systematic skeptics have so poisoned the air in our better educational institutions that credos tend to be considered as a symptom, with all the pejorative connotations of that word. But if there is no overt expression of belief, if we are indeed what Van Wyck Brooks ('08) calls "the silent generation," then the task of formulation becomes doubly difficult for the eccentric minority not adapted to anomie. Criterion can hope to eliminate...