Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flexner criticizes Rollins College for having a professor of books. The professorship is a novelty. Granted. But the idea of such a professorship is far from novel. In 1856 no less an immortal than Ralph Waldo Emerson, in an essay on "Books," said...
William Harlan Hale, one of the editors, berated the university in an essay of eight pages for building in the style of a bygone day. "No man and no nation who possessed a life-giving creative sense ever dreamed of copying the previous age", he said. "We associate the phenomenon of imitation with people who are sterile, with eras that whose tendency is retrogression and atavism...
Hale finds the greatest inspiration in factories, power houses, bridges, and skyscrapers, all of which he regards as far more American and alive than what is medieval and European. In particular he attacked the new Sterling Library, which Yale regards as her best piece of architecture. The essay says, "Few works can equal it as a monument of lifelessness and decadence none can surpass it in extravagance and falsity...
Today's issue of the Harkness Hoot included, in addition to the eight-page essay, a pictorial section of eight more pages. If continued the attack on the Harkness gift which is making possible the inauguration of the House Plan in New Haven...
...will continue. War unfortunately will persist, but in a more humane form, conducted largely by amphibian tanks, perhaps radio-controlled. If the molecular engine is devised, airplanes will supersede all other vehicles, decentralizing all activities, including industry?and here the Earl makes several bows to Henry Ford. The last essay wanders a bit, forecasting an exact psychology that will sweep falsehood and pretense from the earth, leaving little that is so interesting as a brilliant, plagiaristic Earl...