Word: criticizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last few years must admit the justice of President Hopkins' statement. The cry of undergraduate editorials and essays has been almost invariably for more ingenious systems, for more inspirational teaching; rarely has a suggestion been offered as to how the student might improve himself or contribute, except through criticism, to the improvement of his college. But it is more than doubtful if editors and other writers' are alone at fault in this respect. The ordinary undergraduate mind, if it considers education at all, is no less insistent that more and more be done for its benefit. The culpability...
...mass of college student. Through their spokesmen, the undergraduate editors, they are constantly demanding that education be made easier and more attractive. Their most earnest quest is for a process of such ingenuity and perfection that it will educate them in spite of themselves. The demands of the undergraduate critic may uncover certain remediable defects in college systems and in college faculties; to a much larger extent they cover over the fundamental weakness of the undergraduates themselves...
...sequence of arraignment leads, then, from the educational systems and their proponents to the undergraduate critic and from him to those who were responsible for his development. That development has brought about a selfish laxity of resolution quick to find fault and to lay blame elsewhere, and absence of the spirit of cooperation and helpfulness that is indispensable to education. The final responsibility attaches to the American conception of education as a mechanical process that lays stress on the method to the disparagement of the end, and then turns on itself, finding dissatisfaction in the perversion of its purpose...
Luckee Girl. Having borrowed their title from a well-known article of feminine apparel and the refrain of their best song ("Come On Let's Make Whoopee") from the works of a well-known drama critic (Walter Winchell, who, on the ground of an antique enmity, was denied entrance to the premiere), the Brothers Shubert were content to borrow the rest of their second musical production of the week from a thousand previous productions of the same kind. The lucky girl is a midinette who, after an innocent cohabitation with the hero in the environs of Montparnasse, almost loses...
...invite to speak this year is Don Marquis of New York. Last fall Christopher Morley delivered a very amusing address to a full house and he suggested Mr. Marquis for this fall. A. A. Milne may come to this country sometime during the winter. Actors, playwrights and dramatic critics have spoken at luncheons heretofore although last year none appeared on the Union rostrum. This year St. John Ervine, the distinguished English critic who is gracing the pages of the New York World for a few months, may be present. An invitation will be extended to Alexander Wolcott...