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  3. There is an immense and justified pride in what our colleges have done. At the same time there is a growing uneasiness about the

There is an immense and justified pride in what our colleges have done. At the same time there is a growing uneasiness about the

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问题      There is an immense and justified pride in what our colleges have done. At the same time there is a growing uneasiness about their product. The young men and women who carry away our degrees are a very attractive lot - in looks, in bodily fitness, in kindliness, energy, courage and buoyancy. But what of their intellectual equipment? That too is in some ways admirable; for in spite of President Lowell’s remark that the university should be a repository of great learning, since the freshmen always bring a stock with them and the seniors take little away, the fact is that our graduates have every chance to be well informed, and usually are so. Yet the uneasiness persists. When it becomes articulate, it takes the form of wishes that these attractive young products of ours had more intellectual depth and force, more at-homeness in the world of ideas, more of the firm, clear, quiet thoughtfulness that is so potent and so needed a guard against besetting humbug and quackery. The complaint commonly resolves itself into a bill of three particulars. First, granting that our graduates know a good deal, their knowledge lies about in fragments and never gets welded together into the stuff of a tempered and mobile mind. Secondly, our university graduates have been so busy boring holes for themselves, acquiring special knowledge and skills, that in later life they have astonishingly little in common in the way of ideas, standards, or principles. Thirdly, it is alleged that the past two decades have revealed a singular want of clarity about the great ends of living, attachment to which gives significance and direction to a life. Here are three grave charges against American education,, and I want to discuss them briefly. My argument will be simple, perhaps too simple. What I shall contend is that there is a great deal of truth in each of them, and that the remedy for each is the same.  
What is the purpose of the quotation of President Lowell’s remarks?
选项 A、To prove that President Lowell is wrong.
B、To prove that President Lowell is right.
C、To explain what the university has done.
D、To support the author’s own argument.
答案D
解析 参见第五行。指出：尽管President Lowell’s的观点是大学应该是提供学习的循环场所，因为新生总是负荷太多，而毕业生获得的东西很少，事实是我们的毕业生总能很好的获得信息，并且一贯如此。由此看出，作者引用Lowell的观点是为了支持作者自身的观点。
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