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...There is little doubt that the promise of being allowed unlimited cuts, provided he makes grades of such a standard as to warrant his being placed on the preferred list provides an incentive for the student to do better scholastic work. It offers an immediate reward for special effort and recognizes the man with ambition and ability. And yet, what added incentive do students at Pennsylvania posses, other than a meagre possibility of gaining Phi Beta Kappa in the College, Beta Gamma Sigma in the Wharton School, or similar honors in other departments. In our opinion the institution...
...much to hope that the operation of the new rule for Seniors will be successful enough to warrant its further extension to the Junior and Sophomore classes. Its application to Freshmen will probably never be either practicable or desirable, as it would add materially to the danger of the already critical period of transition between secondary school and college. The present change in itself is trivial, but it brings nearer the day when Harvard undergraduates will rightfully be regarded as conscientious students, interested in their own scholastic welfare and hence competent to regulate their own attendance at college classes...
...reviewer has a feeling akin to caddishness when he witnesses a play, a difficult play, upon which has been spent a deal of extra worry, time, and pains, and can not find it in his heart to give it the praise such an expenditure of talent should warrant. Such is the case with the revival of the play in which Joseph Jefferson, contemporary of Booth, originally made the hit of his lifetime. The production of "Rip Van Winkle" at the New Repertory Theatre is done with considerable artistry, elaborate and delightful stage effects, excellent music, and harmony in every detail...
Such are the larger aspects of the Chinese customs muddle. It is expected that, for the present, the conference will steer clear of as many of them as possible. Observers agree that the immediate situation in China is too unstable to warrant proximate withdrawal of British tariff-supervision. Presumably as many minor points of friction as possible will be cleared up at the conference; and it is thought probable that the tariff rate will be raised from 5% to 7½% in order to increase the revenue to a point where China can abolish some of her internal taxes...
...accept no more endowment funds from incorporated educational foundations (TIME, Aug. 17, Oct. 26). But Dr. Frank has only just gone on the scene. He is not one to commit himself. With a shrewd editor's talent for making nothing sound like something, said he: "If the facts warrant, I am willing to be as reactionary as the Czar of Russia on Monday, or as radical as Leon Trotzky on Tuesday. ... I feel the only person worth bothering about is a Realist. [Conservatism, liberalism and radicalism are] three air-tight and often thought-tight compartments. . . . We park ourselves behind...