Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Disillusionment is the keynote of the age. History refutes herself, and under the merciless glare of modern research our once-revered idols totter on feet of veriest clay. Mark Twain started the thankless job. Unflinchingly he exposed the Father of our country, showing not only that the magnificent truth about the cherry tree was a sagacious bit of publicity which led directly to the Presidency, but that his supplementary statement that "he could not tell a lie" was even more carefully calculated to preserve his name to perpetuity. Now a beacon-light of politics is shattered when we learn that...
...have recently come to the conclusion that the essence of Harvard pedagogy is to treat all students as a kind of clay to be shaped into some preconceived pattern, which according to the notion of the polite society is the most desirable and represents the best of manhood. It is difficult to define what is "the best"; but it is easy to see that this is the reason why there are so many lectures, prescribed readings, examinations, etc. The students on the whole are expected to be able to repeat what the professors have told them in the class...
...sobriety, received a severe shaking-up when they heard that a newly-elected Senator had been caught smoking in the Senate chamber. What sacrilege! to besmirch the sanctity of the room where Thomas Barton lived his dying years, where the Civil, Spanish, and Great Wars were conducted, where Webster, Clay, Sumner, and other great men of the past gathered in solemn conclave; where, indeed as Dickens once described, one could see "so many honorable members with swelled faces.... caused by the quantity of tobacco they contrive to stow within the hollow of the cheek. It is strange enough...
Chairman, Harrison Gardner of Boston; secretary, Robert Paul Bullard of Melrose Highlands; treasurer, Francis Kernan Jr. of Utica, New York; assistant treasurer. Francis Sherburne Hill of Brookline; Union, Charles Benjamin Barnes Jr. of Boston; music, Morgan Hovey Harris of Chestnut Hill; patronesses, John Jackson Lee of West-wood; invitations. Clay Harvey Hollister Jr. of Grand Rapids, Michigan; furniture John Delafield Du Bois of New York City; assistant for furniture, Richard Greenough Norris of Brookline. Although the dance, the exact date of which will not be announced until later, does not come until February or March, this committee will meet...
...Jones '23 defeated H. K. Clay...