Word: epigrams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editor's scribbled epigram on the bulletin board...
...nice that the CRIMSON board have succeeded in rationalizing their fear into a philosophy, and that they have at last given it such suave and supercilious expression. We trust, however, that they will forgive us if we offer them an epigram, a motto for the future: "Hanford's in his heaven; all's well with the World." J. P. Coolidge...
...wish to offer a judgment of superiority or inferiority. I critize Cambridge more severely than my American friends who have worked there. The unctuous epigram is too apt to be handed out as a substitute for statement. Et surtout, messieurs, pas trop de zele. On balance, though the assets in each case are quite different, there is perhaps not much to choose between the two. But if Cambridge tends too much to the dilettante, Harvard is not dilettante enough. Apart from that, I think that Cambridge, though harassed about its aims, subconsciously postulates certain functions of a university and satisfactorily...
...Irishman, and therefore a wit, Mr. Leslie manages to compress many an event into a memorable epigram, and he can describe many a contemporary personage with the economy natural to metaphor. The immorality that accompanied night-clubs is chronicled wittily in this adaptation of Holy Writ; a night-club is a place...
Temporary shelter for the Institute of Advanced Study will be Princeton's new Henry Burchard Fine Mathematical Hall, a red brick & grey limestone collegiate Gothic structure. Its stained glass windows record the Einstein relativity formulas. Over a fireplace in the common room is engraved in German an Einstein epigram "God is clever, but not dishonest...