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...thereupon attacked General Education courses, especially in the Natural Science field, on three grounds. First, their prerequisites are too low, he said, making the calibre of the courses themselves low and encouraging preparatory schools to take advantage of low standards...
...University of North Carolina. Born to wealth (his father was president of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.), Gray took to heart a remark made to him by his cousin Polly: "Now remember, Gordon, you never earned a cent of the money you are about to enjoy." Gordon thereupon set out to make a record that money couldn't buy, led his class at Virginia's swank Woodberry Forest School (the Groton of the South), was president of Phi Beta Kappa at the University of North Carolina and editor of the Law Journal at Yale. He went...
...assigned the highest weight for his first handicap race?the Metropolitan. A pleasantly unswervable gentleman named John Blanks Campbell, veteran of 49 years at the tracks, enjoys the "dictatorial power to estimate the talents of horses at most of the big eastern race tracks and thereupon to garland each with an amount of weight theoretically calculated to make all the horses in a handicap race cross the finish line simultaneously. The idea for the Metropolitan was that Native Dancer should carry 130** and the next closest horse?Straight Face?should carry...
...submit that churchery is resurgent, and thereupon pose the question: "Is it possible that Christianity is really true, after...
...advice to the greatest Presbyterian preacher and pastor of his time, Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin. Coffin advised him to do what he himself had done: study for a year at Edinburgh, then return for the rest of his training at Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan. Van Dusen agreed, and thereupon began walking in Dr. Coffin's footsteps...