Word: axioms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last few years it seems to have been the accepted axiom that Yale graduates are to be accorded the palm over Harvard men in American literature. It is an axiom with which I disagree--unless a more prolific output and more vociferous claquing can be weighed in the balance with quiet, individual progress and depth of tone. Mr. Pulsifer, as a Harvard graduate, comes to my rescue very opportunely...
...plot of The Swan is not original. It tells of a beautiful (modern) princess in love with a handsome tutor; of a prince who would marry and make her his queen; of the ancient axiom that there is no royal road to happiness. Yet the very venerability of this plot in its application to the play betokens the master artificer. For only meticulous meditation long after one has left the playhouse discloses the deception. Such deception is admissible; indeed it is a privileged stratagem of genius...
This year it has been almost an axiom that the Harvard team had the power but had not found itself, had not been welded together in the fury of an invincible march down the field or an impregnable defense in the shadow of its own goal-posts. Such at least was the general impression up to last Saturday. And perhaps it is too early to say definitely that Harvard found itself in the game against Tufts; there was nothing that roused the team or the stands to that wild, almost superhuman enthusiasm, of the kind, for example, displayed against Penn...
...long been something of an axiom among musicians that for outdoor concerts the band is the thing. It has been thought that the weaker voice of the orchestra, with its soft strings and woodwind, was lost in an open space. This idea is changing. The cause of the change is to be found in the improvement in sounding boards. An orchestra playing in front of and partly under a great, cavern-like sound deflector contrives to project its tone to the audience quite acceptably...
...written rule that the wicked flee when no man pursueth, and however limited or absolute that truth may be, it suggests another, to the effect that trusting to human nature when there are no patrolmen does not pay in our stage of civilization. So in regard for such an axiom the New Jersey Legislature after 12 years of agitation has passed a bill establishing a state constabulary. Such a bill provides for a state police force of two troops of 65 men each, the officers to be men who have served in the United States army with at least...