Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Danger Lies in Schools
...Harvard the proportion of athletes among transferred students is said to be less than the proportion among students who come straight from schools to the Freshman class. It is in schools rather than in colleges that the chief danger of illegitimate propaganda lies; and nothing can check this propaganda but right-mindedness among undergraduates and alumni. Speaking always with the knowledge that something scandalous may be unearthed at any moment. I nevertheless know that this right-mindedness has been greatly increased in the last thirty-five years. Indeed, there is serious danger of discrimination against the athlete. The questions that...
...dead body of a crusader of the 13th century in full armor. The statue has gained considerable favorable criticism. Th New York Times says that the features of the warrior, frozen in death, wear the austerity typical of a grave and positive century in which fainting under grief or danger was incredible", and that the work shows "a patience and feeling for perfection in craftsmanship". It goes on to say that "technically the work shows genuine power and vitality" and "should be ranked among the best of the war monuments...
...unless to quarrel with Mr. Cowley's eccentricities of capitalization and punctuation; for, after all, these things are only a convention, and of importance only as they help or hinder the expression of the poetic idea. But their danger is more obvious in other of Mr. Cowley's poems, where a desperate effort to be "modern" at any cost takes heavy toll from his sense of beauty. The evil effect of this strained modernism, this pursuit of superficial novelty as an end in itself, is of course more operative in all the arts today,--though there are at least...
...broken or diverted, and it is often hard for them to take up again the normal current of work. The transition from school to college, from set tasks performed under a regular supervised assignment of time to a freer self-direction--a change in which many students are in danger of losing their bearings--becomes more difficult if in the meanwhile their attention has been turned into a different channel and the momentum has been lost...