Word: childishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last him for a lifetime" will within the oncoming generation be abandoned. The new education will help the child to make the most of its life as a child. And it will treat every period of life in the same way aiding the man who has "put away childish things" to make the most of himself. One hundred thousand men and women are now taking home study courses offered by nearly 150 colleges and universities. A recent study of these courses pronounces them a "very necessary part of our present educational system." Several colleges and universities are now be ginning...
...with Freshman fraternities and fence rushes. According to a letter in the "Daily News" it is "obsolete as the antimacassar, the wall motto and the works of Sarah Orne Jewett." In a word, "Tap Day" and the ritual of secrecy appears in the light of the new maturity childish, sophomoric; and ridiculous...
Sophistication, a quality of which the modern undergraduate is supposedly proud, has been defined largely by the things which are not done. Among those who so sternly put away childish things the term has come to represent a kind of blank facial water-mark, a certain disinterested preciosity, a docile decency toward reform, and a super-bred horror of the "collegiate." Yet in course of time, it must be pointed out that sophistication is not defined by the things which are not done, but rather by the things which are not done seriously...
...entry into Jerusalem, it was entitled by the artist and most morning papers "Christ Riding on the Ass." In the evening papers, in the official catalog it appeared as "Palm Sunday A. D. 33." It received the sort of press notice generally reserved for the opera of Jacob Epstein: "childish and primitive," "a monstrosity suitable for Moscow." The cautious News Chronicle considered it "astounding." At Private View Day, Ermine, Viscountess Elibank (a Lady of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem) approached the painting and announced in the presence of several reporters, "I just can't bear...
...against their president as follows: "Autocratic," "domineering," he had demanded that athletes maintain a higher stand than their fellows. "For no particular reason" he had dismissed three of their favorite professors. He had held up the building of W. & J.'s much-wished-for stadium. He had made "childish" rules about clothing, such as forbidding corduroy trousers...