Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aisles, hands dug deep in pockets, shoulders humped, bald head bent. Suddenly he would straighten up to cut in on a debate. Never a maker of long formal speeches he drawled out words that stung his adversaries, bitter words that left scars. Not soon will Truman Newberry or Albert Bacon Fall or Harry Micajah Daugherty or William Scott Vare or Frank Leslie Smith, Republicans all, forget the things that the narrow-eyed junior Senator from Arkansas said to them and about them. Less nimble-witted Republicans used to call him a common scold...
Books, as Francis Bacon might have remarked, are made for classical immortality, ephemeral existence culminating in tired waiting on the 98 cent stand in countless drug store emporiums, or immediate descent into oblivion and the macerating machine. Ernest Hemingway has escaped the latter fate, clearly; his readers of today are those who will decide whether he is to go down through the ages in the blurry print and sedate bindings of Everyman's edition. And this morning the Vagabond will also rise to present his luminous countenance before Dr. Carpenter in Sever 7, where the creater of tired young...
...Harvey made his discovery, the first in modern physiology, by vivisection which "has always been my delight." He was a hardbitten, "small and choleric" man, physician to both Kings James I and Charles I of England. Of Francis Lord Bacon, philosopher and statesman, who was his patient, he once sneered: "He writes philosophy like a lord chancellor. I have cured...
Deans and professors representing the colleges and universities are: J. P. Adams, Brown; G. P. Bacon, Tufts; F. W. Brown, Bowdoin; H. M. Dadourian, Trinity; A. C. Hanford, Harvard; B. A. Hazeltine, Middlebury; L. A. Howland, Wesleyan; Craven Laycock, Dartmouth; H. P. Little, Clark; T. R. Mather, Boston University; K. B. Murdock, Harvard; C. S. Potter, Amherst; T. C. Smith, Williams; Elijah Swift, Frederick Tupper, Vermont; C. H. Warren, Yale; W. M. Warren, Boston University; F. G. Wren, Tufts...
...most significant aspect of the omission of Latin concerns the cultural consequences. The gain in precision and style in writing English resulting from even an elementary classical training is too well recognized to need comment. Another result equally important but less tangible is the passing of the ideal of Bacon's "full man," who values cultural studies for their subjective richness more than practical subjects and their immediate advantages. More and more, colleges are feeling themselves accountable to their alumni for the adequacy of their gradates as wage-earners, not as well-rounded human beings. The products of such...