Word: anon
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...waif--you never know her name, she herself has probably forgotten it--is picked hungry from the gutter to serve as model for a writer of best-sellers. He is hailed as a genius by his family, sought by all the females within sight and preaches ever and anon to his younger brother of the evils of his drinking ways. Mother and "Uncle John," the bishop, also do their best to impress on the same brother that he is sullying the family name and proving himself irretrievably the black-sheep of the family. "The Brat" is the only...
Pillars of fire and other projectiles are periodically hurled at the endowed universities for their conservatism; they are ever and anon charged with eating out of the hands of "big business," and are "arraigned" for supposed intellectual subservience. The vitriolic young men, seeking publicity, who make these charges, conveniently forgot that they are often allowed to make their denunciations in college buildings, and then are invited to speak again. They forget also that American "big business" men were as strongly opposed to the retention of certain pro-German professors in the University as they possibly could be to the employment...