Word: cosmopolitan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cleveland. Postmaster H. A. Taylor of Cleveland sold national magazines in bundles of five or six (original value 65? to 7?). Bidding at the first sale was lively, 40? or 50? a bundle, then fell away to 20?. Magazines sold: Cosmopolitan, Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Ladies' Home Journal, Field & Stream, Motion Picture, American, True Story, Detective Story, Red Book, Home Beautiful, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazar, Arts & Decoration...
...Harvard Corporation appears to have been influenced by principles of the past in choosing a form of the Hose Plan which emphasizes the Harvard idea of university spirit in its broadest sense. Characteristic of the plan in its relationship to the fundamental ideal of the university as a powerful cosmopolitan catalyst fusing a rich and tangible whole from various strong, individual components...
...Chief Justice William Howard Taft in the Cosmopolitan for November...
Frazier Hunt's article in the current "Cosmopolitan" merely reiterates once more the cry of over-emphasis of college athletics. The unbalanced predominance of sports in American universities is a favorite subject for the criticism of a small army of alarmists who are forever throwing their hands up in horror at the younger generation. They talk about the problem a great deal, but they never do anything about it. They offer no panacea...
...graduates of Yale were invited to express their views respecting the higher education of today. Among them, very naturally, was the Hon. William Howard Taft, who responded to the invitation with a critical piece that set a thousand tongues aquiver. In an interview with Frazier Hunt in the current "Cosmopolitan" the Chief Justice returns to his theme. "The emphasis in college life is wrong", he insists. And he proceeds to expatiate on the submergence of scholarship in extra-curricula activities and especially athletics. "The stadium," he says, "overshadows the classroom--athletics have a dollar sign in front of them...