Word: epigrames
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...both go." Resenting a Harvard professor's literary criticisms, Hubbard ever after blasted colleges: "A college de gree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it." When his affair with Schoolmistress Alice Moore created a national scandal, he coined and widely promoted an epigram on gossips: "When in doubt, mind your own business." Biographer Balch takes 320 pages to seek (vainly) for the clue to Elbert Hubbard's contradictory character. The shrewdest characterization is that of the Scottish comedian, Sir Harry Lauder...
...Navy means that he favors a "two-ocean navy." That phrase, said the President, is a beautiful slogan, meaningless in practice. Then he turned to a press-conference guest, Publisher Joe Patterson of the New York Daily News, said the same thing applies to that gentleman's favorite epigram ("Two Ships For One"). What the U. S. must have, the President went on, is a Navy big enough for its maximum, varying defense needs in any ocean...
...Garden of Eden whose game laws Warden Dix has written for the big man hunt. It is free love. Withering is Author Dix's womanly scorn for virgins who are foolish enough to sell sex short. Their lack of business acumen irritates Dorothy Dix into an epigram: "Free love means what it says...
...Unethical, undesirable, but damned useful." Human minds cannot fairly be put into pigeon-holes. Nor can their opinions on a subject like tutoring at Harvard be accurately summed up in a flashy epigram. Each student thinks differently about it, and the collective opinion is a many-tentacled monster indeed. But in five succinct words, one student did succeed in roughly synthesizing the sentiments which the majority of his fellows nurse, and which they recorded in the Crimson poll...
That tutoring schools are "a symptom and not a cause" is the epigram originally tossed into circulation by the Monthly and now substantiated by careful logic in the lead article of the latest Progressive. The statement is true. It is correct that examinations which require little more than cramming encourage the existence of tutoring schools. But it is doubtful that an attack on the examination system would supply a solution immediate enough to meet such a pressing problem...