Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...saying that the function of the two great English universities was to teach men to spend, that of the Scotch universities to teach them to earn, an income respectably; and he added that American universities existed for both of those objects. This cryptic remark might be the subject of endless discussion. The aim of the American college should be, not to give its students the technical training and tools of their future occupation, but rather to fit them to be citizens, to develop those qualities that lead to the better life both for themselves and for the community...
...trails of the professors, they hardly have any time left for their creative impulse to operate. By formulating this habit, they will undoubtedly in the course of time become perfect phonographic records, and will make no noise unless they are pinned; (2) or they get so bored with the endless requirements, that they decide not to suffer any discipline. Eventually they may spoil their whole life because of this. Good students will follow the first course; self-conceited students usually prefer the second alternative. Neither is highly desirable; both are not uncommon at Harvard...
...their prettiest dresses. And for the first time in the last two weeks he is able to enjoy it all. His tickets of many colors have been distributed for better or for worse; his packing boxes stand ready in the hall; he has ended the bother of reading endless notices by memorizing the entire program for Commencement Week. All the relatives are here and Aunt Fanny has been discreetly installed on Brattle Street...
...statement will provoke naturally various differences of opinion, but the point raised is interesting. Are we so saturated with a succession of Sullivans, Corbetts and Dempseys (with or without monocle); with day by day chronicles of the exile of Babe Ruth (now happily at an end); and the endless chain of murder, divorce, robbery, and murder again, that we, as people have slumped back into a degeneracy without morals, patriotism, or belief in ideals...
...fifth century before Christ. Aristophanes mimicked Euripides with side splitting and enraging effectiveness. Cervantes' Don Quixote is sheer parody. In our own language we have a great volume of comic imitation. Shakespeare parodied and was parodied. Milton's ponderous solemnity was the subject of endless ribald travesty in his own momentous metre. Shelley did not shame to lampoon dear old Wordsworth...