Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took Military Science with Antony, J. J. Collier '23 Mardian, Cleopatra's Enrico Caruso, W. E. Collins Jr. '24 Chairman, Both confidante and confident, Paul Mendoza Jr. '23 Iris, A valuable piece of brass in Cleopatra's silver service, Kellogg Gary '24 A Soothsayer, Who missed his own age, Curtis Nelson '24 Lightnin', a messenger to Antony R. S. Flinn '23 Octavious Caesar, a Triumvir, by Gosh! R. H. Sears '24 Octavia, a worthy decoration in any home P. F. Pond '25 The Comedy Element P. L. Cheney 2S. L. A. Cleo's Messenger, as dumb as he looks...
This has often been called the age of literacy. Everyone reads. Even tooth-brushes are wrapped in sheets of printed paper, giving directions for their use, and telling why the brand in question is better than that furnished by any other manufacturer. Groceries come enclosed with recipes for cooking them. Advertising is carried on in every conceivable place, and the only force which causes a ray of hope is the "movies", and they after all, only convert a story of words into a story of action, without improving on the literary tone...
...writings they can not make his position permanent. Maupassant, who wrote for seven years before he published a single word and submitted his work only to his master Flaubert for criticism, is pointed out as ideal, but he would have a poor time of it today. This is the age when everyone must cultivate "self-expression" through the mail if possible, --and everyone prefers to cultivate it out loud. And the worst of it is that, even in advocating attence, there must be more words, and more work for the "printer's devil...
Economics and engineering have sprung up as professions within the last sixty years; theology has kept knowledge itself alive down through the dark centuries. In this day of "whatever is new is good" the very fact of its age condemns theology without consideration...
There is much for our age to regret, and what few crumbs of comfort can be scraped together should be seized with avidity. No opportunity should be allowed to slip by. Think what a charming lecturer William Hohenzollern, formerly a man of some note in Prussia, would prove, with his variety of subjects, from the science of wood-chopping to "From White House to Log-Cabin." And how entertaining would be Herr Hindenburg's "Line...