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...memory only the fundamental and basic principles essential to stimulate original enterprise. So long as we only speak what we have heard and write what we have read our mental efficiency is zero. Although we probably will always applaud, if not envy, the person having a memory of uncommon accuracy, yet, as Professor Neilson suggests, "the modern idea is that memory is not a store-house in which to place parcels not be used until taken out, but rather an incubator in which you place the eggs and from which you extract the chicks...
...Boyden's review of Hugh Walpole and Compton Mackenzie is admirable, not because it is the last word on these writers, but because it is a young man's unpretentious appreciation of the treatment of youth by two other young men. It avoids with uncommon tact that straining for an appearance of maturity and omniscience which is the vice of undergraduate criticism
...proposed will fill a want among track enthusiasts. In support of this it is pointed out that in the last two years it has been noticeable that champions have failed to repeat their title winning feats in succeeding annual meets. A few years ago it was not uncommon for an athlete to capture first place in some event in which he specialized for two or even three years in succession. In direct contrast to this is the fact that not a single intercollegiate champion of 1913 won an undisputed right to first place in 1914. J. B. Camp...
...Harvard team played in mid-season form both in the field and at bat, Thirteen hits in the first game of the year marks one of the best beginnings in the history of Harvard baseball. Besides this only two errors in the field were made which is a distinctly uncommon occurrence at the opening of a college baseball season...
...uncommon to hear a man in his third or fourth year at Harvard say that he has never spoken so much as a word to some of his professors. Such cases are often cited as examples of the traditional. Harvard in-difference and are received with horror by those unfamiliar with conditions in a modern university. It is a misconception to take such statements as indicative of an impassible breach between the students and the Faculty, for the only courses in which a man may fall to come into contact with a professor are those large elementary lecture courses which...