Word: bartonized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present educational system teaches us to believe that we are mentally healthy, wealthy and prosperous. The dormitory system is often very indicative of this, although one could not justly claim this true of Middlebury. A. Barton Hepburn had a very far sighted conception when he refused to give a marble Hepburn Hall. It was the first permanent Middlebury structure to be made of anything but marble. He had, perhaps, a subtle thought that youth should not all be entertained, beyond comfort and necessity. Hepburn is an ideal dormitory. If includes the essential comforts, is convenient in every...
...William Eleazar Barton...
...Congregational pastor emeritus, whose son, Bruce Barton, wrote The Man Nobody Knows and The Book Nobody Knows) wrote in the Red Book for June: "The most interesting fact in the social life of the globe is the permanent division of the human race into two sexes, approximately equal in number, and each necessary to the complement of the other. Sex, either in itself or in some of its many manifestations-the family, the home, education, life-insurance and all the rest-can never be very far from the centre of the stage in anybody's thinking...
...intervals in this issue will the reader cut himself on the razor edge of real wit. There is a paragraph in the south-west corner of page 232 which would have made F. P. A. very happy had he thought of it. The parody of the sainted Bruce Barton on page 237 is clean-cut work; and Reynal's full page drawing, though encumbered with too much work on the background and accessories, gives promise of a real gift for cartooning. Questions 2 and 4 in "How Much Do You Know" are as funny as they come anywhere...
...mention them by name.* The article made such conclusions as: "It is possible that both sides were right. . . . Perhaps, after all, New York does not care particularly what happens." And then the nice old ladies and other dime spenders read an editorial entitled, "Part Men, Part Goats," by Barton Wood Currie, who came from the New York Evening World to the Country Gentleman and from there in 1920 to edit the Ladies' Home Journal. Said he: "There is a new order of nobility that the press of our great cities and the pink and green pamphleteers of our literati...