Word: classics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fame of Dean Briggs' anecdote is now extended well beyond college circles. In a recent issue of the "Globe" the leading editorial quoted it (with the original modest fifty dollar stakes now swollen to several hundred!) as the "classic example of the most efficient way to nip threatened blackmail in the bud. The little story appears to be as susceptible of wide application as many an ancient parable. Harvard is to be congratulated for having presided at its birth...
...outstanding conception of the Cantabrigian student, in the popular mind, is a snobbish, and pompous individual, scion of a bloated meat-packer, correctly dressed and redressed for every occasion, insensible to the lure of the classic fount, but pursuing the social whirl in liveried equipage. This is all wrong...
...golden calf which America worships" cannot be shattered by "quiet staid respectability." Nor can an intellectual aristocracy which hugs the fireside, and sips tea--or coffee, and fiddles with ideas "guide an amorphous democracy", intellectually or otherwise.' This is no time to indulge in neo-classic vagaries. Now, as never before, the world has need of its youth. There are vital problems to be solved, courageous beliefs to be voiced and translated into action...
...novel, of the type of "Main Street," so much in vogue today, that deals with drab, everyday life in a colorless wag, will not last long as a classic, according to Joseph C. Lincoln, noted American novelist, In a recent interview for the Crimson. These novels form but one more example of the attempt of the Realists to supplant the Romanticists in the field of literature, Mr. Lincoln said...
...reply to the question as to whether there would be any enduring classic among the realist novels of today, Mr. Lincoln said that he thought not. "Those books have lasted," he declared,, "which have been written with more than a little regard for what might be called the humanities. All through the history of literature you will find this to be true. It is for this reason that Shakespeare's plays are still read and his characters still widely known, while the works of almost all of his contemporaries have long ago been forgotten. It is for this reason that...