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...rich get richer, and the poor get poorer" seems to apply here. Educators might hesitate to recognize the obvious need for separation, but soon they may have to focus their attention upon this situation. As long as steps like the Reading Period are taken, so long will the breach widen. The autimonies are clearly outlined. In the end, it is either the Tutorial System, the Reading Period, the degree with Honors on one side, or on the other lectures, the class room, the instructor, the weekly quizzes and time for athletics, extra-curriculum activities with the ordinary degree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET | 3/23/1928 | See Source »

...traversed China without seeing children play, unreproved, the game of cat tails. Two or more stray cats are caught, tied together by their extremities, hung over a convenient limb, and left to claw out each others' eyes and innards. Meanwhile the passing mandarin smiles and coolies stop to widen yellow grins. Thus loom the ingrained traits which made it possible, last week, for certain Chinese irregulars of heathen persuasion to massacre with fiendish cruelty the Roman Catholic natives who once populated Leiyang in Hunan Province...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Fiendish Massacre | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...been pointed out, Winston Churchill found the possibility of Anglo-German hostilities incredible; now twenty years later the same is logically time of the present situation. Let the two countries in a foment of patriotism be awakened to a mutual distrust, and immediately their circles of honor will widen. Clouds will gather over the mountains that were molehills: rumour will be bandiod about once more in the streets: and the papers will play the overture to another stupid tragedy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DOGS OF WAR | 2/1/1928 | See Source »

...last week it could not be told whether Wang's coming would heal or widen the split between Nationalist radicals and conservatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wang | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...arts, letters, history, and philosophy. If he has no sufficiently keen interest outside of science, it would in general be better to utilize his concentration to prepare for his professional studies which he can do in a variety of ways. He can then use his other courses to widen his mental outlook...

Author: By H. J. Hughes, | Title: Choosing A Field of Concentration | 4/2/1927 | See Source »

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