Word: destroyers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least logically comprehensible that the University should want to destroy Appleton in order to build a chapel twice its size, though it is gratifying to know that we will be spared this "balancing" of Widener...
...Dean is unquestionably the chief point of contact between the student body and the administration, and it is perhaps unfortunate that most students meet him only in his capacity of disciplinarian. An unsympathetic person in that office can go far to destroy the good will of the students toward the faculty. Such a contingency is above all to be avoided...
Harvard has spent a great deal of time and money in developing athletic facilities which will answer the needs of all undergraduates. If the Athletic Association should grant Newell Boat House to this group of men, it would create an unfortunate precedent which might well destroy the efficacy of the present system. Other graduates would soon demand, quite justifiably, the tennis courts, or the swimming pool, or the gymnasium for their exercise. Because of the many students who already make use of this equipment it would be utterly impossible for the University to meet these demands without depriving undergraduates...
These chapters rearrange some of the portraits in the gallery of letters and lucidity of style adds grace to the arguments employed to justify the changes. If Professor Garrod does not destroy contrary convictions he shakes them thoroughly. Arnold, Clough, Emerson, and Bridges, he treats with scholastic insight too rarely found in company of poetic comprehension. His light is sharp and deeply cuts into the body of poetic expression while his own vehicle is characterized by a delicacy that is pleasing respite from the brutishness of many modern critics of letters...
...destroy patriotism and reverence for our heroes is bad, to blast the happy counterfeits that throng the precious memory of childhood is still worse, but to remove the stock and stay of the Latin Quarter is unutterable. Art galleries, painters, dowager dilettantes, lily fingered aesthetes, all down in one cataclysmic head. It must...