Word: bloodlessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...broken all caste systems where centuries of oppression and gunpowder have failed, and has united India with one common aim," said Swami Yogananda, representative of the Maharaja of Kasimbazar in America, and recent delegate to the International Congress of Religions, speaking yesterday before the Liberal Club. "A bloodless revolution is his idea, an India conquering through ideals...
...many months ago, being asked to review the Advocate, I took the occasion to inquire why it is that so many college literary periodicals are pale and bloodless things, and expressed the opinion that the Advocate suffered from not being edited and written for the sake of its readers. My contention was that the magazine was too often a collection of themes written for the composition courses and later embalmed in print...
...reviewer wonders as he puts down the Advocate why it is that college literary magazines, if they are not cheap,--and the Advocate is never cheap,--tend to be pale and bloodless things, useful for the purpose of enabling their writers to see their work in print, but of little general interest to the college commu- nity. Isn't it possible that this is because most of the contributions to college literary magazines are written, not to entertain the undergraduates and their friends, but to meet the requirements of some course in English Composition, and are subsequently turned over...