Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advantage even over other young gentlemen who start fashions in men's harberdashery, for the Princeton man cannot wear his swanl sport suit to the dinner table, not the Eli his fawn-colored flannels. Until the New Haven debutantes can persuade Chapel and High Street debutantes to give dinner parties, and until Princeton can move its Gothic walls within twenty minutes of Sherry's or the Bellevue- Stratford, the gentle sons of Harvard will continue to enjoy their advantages...
...make productions whose moral and artistic tone is enough above the average wanted, to be of some educational value" continued Mr. Hays, "yet not be so 'high brow' that they are unliked and consequently unpatronized Progress has been made but much remains to be done. The film companies cannot serve a vegetarian diet to people who want raw beef. In one of the largest theatres in Washington, Beau Brummel starring John Barrymore, lost $36,000. The following week "Flaming Youth netted...
...chorus of praise which has greeted the most recent of Harvard's experiments cannot be attributed to any standardization of educational theory in this country. Perhaps never before has there been in American university education a greater variety of theories and practices than exists today. Yet the fact remains that criticism of the pre-examination "reading periods", some of which is reprinted on this page, is of one tone in applauding the spirit behind the change and in hoping for its success...
...then becomes of the Tutorial System, of the Honors course, of Dr. Meiklejohn's college, all of which are in fundamental opposition to such a philosophy? There is no war here between political, or religious, or economic conservatism and radicalism. The dust raising activities of the Red Peril Chaser cannot obscure the issue. The choice is simple. Are the school and college to train educated men or obscurantists...
...Women cannot create. In all of the arts, from the beginning of time, women have done delicious small things, but when they have attempted grandeur they have failed ignominiously. . . . For example, what woman has ever created a great painting...