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ate side by side men who are years apart in mental attainment, why 

 do we not endeavor to lessen the gap? "Why do we not administer to 

 weaker students smaller and more frequent doses of each subject even 

 though we should thus lengthen their time of residence? If this were 

 done we should have something like a standard, and men would know 

 that they will be kept in the mill until their grist is ground. Then pro- 

 fessorial inspiration and compulsion would assimie a totally different 

 significance; for, in the last analysis, they would be but spurs. The 

 ultimate cause of prompt success in winning the degree would be the 

 student's own quality. 



