Word: americans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American College of Surgeons meets at Chicago...
...South American trade, Sonoart began to make Blaze O' Glory, a talking picture in Spanish starring one Jose Bohr, Argentinian...
Frazier Hunt's article in the current "Cosmopolitan" merely reiterates once more the cry of over-emphasis of college athletics. The unbalanced predominance of sports in American universities is a favorite subject for the criticism of a small army of alarmists who are forever throwing their hands up in horror at the younger generation. They talk about the problem a great deal, but they never do anything about it. They offer no panacea...
...students of the subject will quarrel with his description of the disease. Predominant in every American college and university at present are the social activities of student life, and of these the most important, from the point of view of the public, are the athletic. Membership in the varsity football team represents the peak of undergraduate attainment, and from that the scale of values grades down through the lesser sports, through the glee and mandolin clubs, the dramatic society and the comic weekly to the bottom of scholastic excellence. Education, the nominal object of every college student, plays second fiddle...
...alma mater, the great bulk of college graduates have found their livelihood not in the so-called learned professions, but in business. At the same time they have been under an ever increasing pressure to identify themselves with the institutions that set them adrift in the world. The American genius for organization has been nowhere more potent that in its regimentation of college alumni, with the result that the alumni have come to dictate the ideals of the college. These ideals are naturally those of the "mixer," since in nine cases out of ten it is the good "mixer" that...