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Don't forget the points in Northwestern's favor

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19980330
Author:ZAY N. SMITH

Will everyone please lay off Northwestern?

Name another university where accused point-shavers maintain a

75 percent graduation rate. Hats off to Mary From a letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson from his Aunt Mary in 1824: "Solitude which to people, not talented to deviate from the beaten track (which is the safeguarding of mediocrity) without offending, is to learning and talents the only labyrinth (though sometimes gloomy) to form eagle wings which will bear one farther than suns and stars." From Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Culture" in 1860: "Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is, to ...

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