Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these records beyond access, but to keep them where they may become the "most valuable source of information of the personal and biographic and critical sides of American esthetic history in years to come". The members propose to pick out that which is the best of this day and age, and to put it where it may become a stimulus to the genius of the future generations which are to carry on the admirable work begun by the Academy of the present. As such it should be a source of inspiration to every serious minded student of the Arts...
...fellowship of classes by some such welcoming process as a pole-rush, tug-of-war, or cap-burning. Though lacking those familiar methods, Harvard has a substitute that serves in a somewhat similar capacity. The election today is in its way a formal recognition of the coming-of-age of the Freshman class. It is a reception at which the Class, Personified by its voting, presents itself to the rest of the college, and discloses it tastes and its character. If it goes to the polls en masse, showing a vigorous interest in its affairs, the reception will probably...
Disillusionment is the keynote of the age. History refutes herself, and under the merciless glare of modern research our once-revered idols totter on feet of veriest clay. Mark Twain started the thankless job. Unflinchingly he exposed the Father of our country, showing not only that the magnificent truth about the cherry tree was a sagacious bit of publicity which led directly to the Presidency, but that his supplementary statement that "he could not tell a lie" was even more carefully calculated to preserve his name to perpetuity. Now a beacon-light of politics is shattered when we learn that...
...very comforting, in an age of yellow journalism, to know that at least one paper in Boston is still able to see the truth and to speak it. The Boston Evening Telegram, in its leading editorial on Saturday, revealed in graphic terms the rotten depths to which Harvard humorists have descended. With the Lampoon's "Town and Country Number" as their text, the editors have exposed once and for all the foulness that has been masquerading in these innocent-appearing pages. It is almost inconceivable that respectable college men should be willing to debase themselves, in the words...
...would be understandable if the authorities denied the student's appeal on the ground that a course in that subject is unnecessary. If an age of Freudian novels and the Enlightenment of Youth, when "he facts of life" are taught, at the Mayor's request, to children in the New York public schools, it might not be supposed that anyone would care to elect the subject in college. Medieval documents, recently investigated by a University professor, have disclosed the knowledge that love was a disease well understood even by our ancestors of eight centuries ago, a fact which would seem...