Word: answers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest answer to the time honored query, "What's in a name?" comes from the Middle West and informs us that as much as $100,000 dollars a year can be drawn from nothing more than a happy combination of letters. "Red" Grange, former sensation of mid-Western gridirons and the despair of ambitious backfield men, has found an unrivalled formula for living in opulence with an expenditure of nothing, in the way of effort, a year. Tired of supplying neighboring ice boxes with their heavy fuel, weary of dashing up and down mud covered gridirons, even, it seems, fatigued...
...best work of the clubs, would it not seem advisable to hold is joint cncert in the winter or spring, in which both clubs might take part in the more elaborate programs which they are capable of offering and which real music lovers would delight to hear? . . ." The answer to this interrogation was forthcoming on the following day when the president of the Harvard Glee-Club announced in a letter to the CRIMSON, that an invitation had already been extended to the Yale organization for just such a concert and that an acceptance had been received...
There seems to be only one solution which will adequately take care of the situation. Setting tuition fees to correspond to the actual and complete cost of education is the answer. It is in no sense a new idea but too often it is suggested without its equally necessary corollary. If the tuition is to be raised to cover the expense of instruction, then student loan funds must be established to provide the equality in opportunity for intellectual development now made possible through endowed education or through the wide distribution of expense as in the case of state universities. This...
...great confession. It has been claimed that this was true of every artist and it probably is, though the dramas or Schiller and the Epics of Homer may offer some difficulties to the interpreter, and the works of Shakespeare, seen under this view, have not yet given the last answer to the question, whether Bacon or Shakespeare. There are, however, writers whose life and work proceed hand in hand in such a way that each new work is on its face a distinct confession of the author's artistic creed and his experience in a certain period of his life...
...questions come to the mind of a commentator. The first asks who is responsible for the trend. One answer is that the attempt to educate men regardless of capabilities leads naturally to the adoption of quickly attainable objectives, that administrators of public systems are well aware of this despair of convincing the generality of people that the indeterminate paths of learning are worth travelling, and therefore succumb, that politicians aid and abet all moves to make education practical because most electors are practical-minded...