Word: cloistering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year after year the undergraduate has listened apathetically to appeals for his interest in the seething world outside. Except when such participation promised a gay torchlight procession or a chance to hurl milk bottles without interference it moved him not. But when deans and presidents themselves rush from the cloister the undergraduates will doubtless fling aside robes and sandals and plunge into the whirring world...
...remains to all time, a lasting record of human needs and human consolations; the voice of a brother who ages ago felt and suffered and renounced. In the cloister; perhaps, with serge gown and tonsored head, with a fashion of speech different from ours, but under the same silent, far off heavens, and with the same passionate desires, the same stirrings, the same failures, the same weariness."--George Eliot. 8vo. Cloth. Decorative cover. Chatto and Windus, London. Published at $2.50. Special price...
...many years ago any suggestion that a university should take more than a passing interest in what was going on outside its cloister would not have been received with any great degree of warmth. It was this scholastic attitude that made the college man the butt of ridicule for every journalist and humorist of the country, who sarcastically called attention to the essential impracticability of a college education...