Word: arbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arbor, Mich., Feb. 21, 1925. TIME New York...
...Arbor, Mich, restless with the knowledge that something is agley in undergraduatedom, President Marion LeRoy Burton of Michigan University called to him Robert C. Angell of the Sociology Department. He sent Dr. Angell on a quest. Last week Dr. Angell returned, after talking with many another uneasy educator, and many young men and women, earnest no end and either utterly complacent or badly worried over themselves. Dr. Angell wrote a report: "College is no longer a place for those who wish to become cultured. It is a social prac- tice ground. Men and women come here to make friends...
...Arbor, Mich...
...academic society at Ann Arbor must also exercise a due restraint. To produce a real, live poet at a tea is an end aimed at by every hostess, but it has a bad effect on the poet. He is rushed like a florist's fern from one glittering gathering to another, until the peace and retirement necessary to the practise of a great art becomes a myth...
...University of Michigan succeeds in giving moderately where the inclination is to be generous, and if Ann Arbor society can refrain from draping Mr. Frost in a corner of the salon three or four times a week, something really beneficial will have been accomplished for American literature. At least it will be a strong incentive to a greater appreciation of men of letters...