Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whence came these people, whom we call the Mayas? What was the catastrophe that wiped out the civilizations of their golden age so suddenly that no tradition of them was left among the savage tribes who inherited their territory? In what fashion did the immigrant Mayas retrieve a measure of ancient culture in a new land? When we enter their deserted cities we feel the poignantly tantalizing quality of the mystery that surrounds a magnificent ship discovered in mid-ocean with sails set, gear in order and not a soul on board...
...This is an age of gasoline and jazz, of the movie and the radio, of the new woman and her liberty. . . ." Dr. Smith decided that college matriculants simply are not fitted to live college life. They are, he could but conclude, just irresponsible, ill-licked cubs. They should examine themselves and try to exert their faculties, not primarily upon problems in algebra and Greek roots, but upon manhood and the wise conduct of their lives...
...89th birthday the class of '89 made me a member. It was a beautiful and most welcome hospitality. It is renewing my youth; it takes 33 years off from my age and associates me with the healthy and vigorous maturity of the class of '89. Dr. Faust sold himself to the devil to gain the results, and the use he made of it sent him to Hell. But the inspiration and joy of camaraderie with the class of '89 is the full realization of the Yale spirit...
...well-known how Mr. Mencken sticks stray figurative pins into the viscera of the age. And in the pricking he seems sometimes to follow an aimless aim; which is perfectly all right because he himself will retort that most purposes are eminent purposeless. And what he says he believes to be true. That all too human adjective belies his paradox...
...Splendid", would be the cry of the chronic sage, "These are my prototypes unperverted by reason, untrammelled by the age...