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Fortunately disciplinary measures of this sort are rare, at least in a form so extreme. President Lowell has observed that the prime object of the modern college is to stimulate desire for intellectual attainment. It is coming to be a truism that this stimulation can only be achieved by the instructor who abandons the old-fashioned paraphernalia of discipline and meets the student sympathetically on his own ground...
...Brinton is more benevolent than this anonymous satirist--perhaps more benevolent than accurate in his praise of college beer. But then, I should remember that dryness lends enchantment to the taste, if you will pardon the truism...
...obliged to undergo compulsory military training. The matter is not one of pacifism or militarism now, despite the opinions of old die-hards". The point at issue is the right to shake off military requirements now that their raison d'etre has disappeared. And the right to assort this truism has been seriously infringed...
...discors there will spring up the tradition of railing against them as so much unnecessary inhibition, as so much of that traumatic stuff which Freud would assure us will bother the graduates for the remainder of his celibate or marital existence--chiefly the latter, for it is a sorry truism, known even to a Freshman, that man gives hostages to fortune in monogamy, and even in polygamy. . . . But we digress. What we meant to say was that in this communication to the CRIMSON we were only acting up to the tradition of lamenting the institution of divisional examinations for Seniors...
That American college students lack in public debate the ease of expression and the polished stage presence of English university men has been so often said that it has become a truism. And as a truism, it is likely to be accepted with characteristic indifference or resignation...