Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quite sure what remedies Macbeth or Hamlet would suggest for our present maladies. With all their excellent qualities, neither of those gentlemen would be suited to express an intelligent opinion on Prohibition, or the Overalls Movement, or Sinn Fein. If such afflictions as these had been added to their lot, we are confident that neither of them would have succeeded in surviving beyond Act Three...
Ladies and Gentlemen: It is pretty hard to express appreciation of a reception of this king. It takes me back to the old days before the war when Harvard was doing, with the other universities, all they could to get ready for something that seemed to be coming. We could not see it, but we knew it was in the air. Again, as I look over your faces, it takes me back to the days of the training camp during the war when we used to get a regiment together and I told them about their duties and many...
...receipt has given the old result, and once again the taste that persists is that of the average and not of the distinguished. Perhaps, like the Magazine, the Lampoon craves the title of "representative." Perhaps the faint suggestion of dullness is but the result of a desire to express a mistaken idea of the average of undergraduate fun making. Even so, those of us who believe there is a higher standard and material to measure up to it, are disheartened...
...advice could hardly hope for a hearing unless he haunted Mt. Auburn Street with uncommon persistence. Nevertheless if he were armed with a message in regard to National Coffee week, or Bolshevism, or some other topic dear to the Lampoon, he might gain audience. Surely his ghostly sayings would express the thought of many material but devoted Lampoon readers, inarticulate but eager for the highest of Lampoon standards, seeking the best and not the average of undergraduate humor, and pathetically ready to laugh and to praise on the barest excuse. KENNETH B. MURDOCK...
...resourcefulness," can adjust themselves to whatever conditions the future may bring forth: to prepare natural leaders not technical experts. Linked with the recognition of the value of general education should be the university editors' sane protest against those who would deny to Harvard teachers that freedom to form and express their own opinions which has been one of the more cherished rights of English and American tradition. Advancement of society in the past has been wrought by its critics not by its admirers. It is essential, particularly in this time of readjustment, that our universities shall fully recognize this fact...