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...oral examination itself is losing much of its arbitrariness. The student who is fairly proficient in both French and German, yet brilliant in neither, may try both languages. And with this granting of two chances vanish the conventional complaints of the unreasonableness of a single passage for translation or the exactions of a particular examiner. The new rules will not make an individual oral examination easier. They will make the system as a whole more fair, however, and will make the ultimate penalty--probation--a serious disgrace for delinquent upper-classmen...
...Powys argued that with Socialism would come an end of graft in public office, because the incentive for private ownership would vanish with the elimination of private property. The speaker's ideal was to have machinery supplant much present human labor, so that men will have shorter working hours and consequently a chance to develop genius and individuality...
...found to be infinitely easier to pass lofty resolutions as to its existence than actually to get any power, any nation, under any circumstances, to try to take advantage of it. The court would, in actual fact, never have come into existence, its memory would have vanished if it had not been for John Hay, who, as Secretary of State, succeeded in getting Mexico and the United States to submit to the judgment of the court a claim involving the two nations. It was this act of John Hay's which literally saved the court, because it put the machinery...
Whiting-Yet, ah, that Spring should vanish with the rose...
...human animal itself. But I can tell you for your comfort that the chief cure for it is to interest yourself, to lose yourself, in some issue not personal to yourself--in another man's trouble or, preferably, another man's joy. But if the dark hour does not vanish, as sometimes it doesn't; if the black cloud will not lift, as sometimes it will not; let me tell you again for your comfort that there are many liars in the world, but there are no liars like your own sensations. The despair and the horror mean nothing, because...