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...analysis of what has brought about this change is more difficult. It is a complete turnabout from the immediate post-war attitude to college education. It is a registering of disgust toward the "collegiatism" of the twenties. The idea that a college education is a key to social life is also passing. It has rather become for many the key to a successful business life. In this respect the depression of the past two years undoubtedly has had a chastening effect on the student ambitious of a business life and has strengthened his seriousness of purpose...
...Vagabond in sheer disgust turned back to Memorial Hall. As he climbed the steep ascent to Haven his steps were laggard. And then, on the three hold he stood transfixed. There, staring out of the tower, spy glass in hand, was a wily Oriental peering off to the Charles where Princeton was practicing for the race. As he watched, he muttered to himself, "Oh Tiger, father Tiger...
...Authors Sellar & Yeatman's consoling style: "Nelson was one of England's most naval officers, and despised weak commands. At one battle when he was told that his Admiral-in-Chief had ordered him to cease fire, he put the telephone under his blind arm and exclaimed in disgust: 'Kiss me, Hardy...
Apparently Europeans find solace for their disgust at bill-boards, gasoline pumps, and other twentieth century appurtenances by calling them "American." The United States may originally have been responsible for some of these things, but the Old World received them with open arms. Foreigners of the second generation have to be accepted as Americans regardless of their good or bad qualities. It is almost time for Europeans to realize that their gasoline pumps are "of the second generation...
...been the sweeping undergraduate reaction which has followed on the heels of the "rah-rah collegiatism" produced in the middle of the post-war decade. Because sentimentalists and publicists seized and exploited the traditional forms of sportsmanship, it too has been driven to cover by the current wave of disgust at all the lack of restraint that the word "Collegiate" now implies...