Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some months ago "Vanity Fair" satirized the decay of free institutions in America. Passed over lightly at the time, the satire is brought vividly to mind by the widely heralded trial of Gerald Chapman. The press reports are almost universally in a vein to create the hostile public opinion by which juries are so easily swayed. The "New York Times" even states that Chapman's diabolically superhuman mind has, since his capture, mastered criminal law so thoroughly that he is now directing his own defense, and will concoct the subtle lies that will be stated in his favor...
...sore. He pickaxed through Main Street, spitted Babbitt. Now, slightly relieved but no whit satisfied, he hammers out a harsh heroism and lays it, hissing hot, to the flabby flank of Medicine. While he is thus occupied, his fancy is caught by a realist's dream of fair woman - wry little Leora. The satire is swift, sure, great in its age, and Leora, being of life, will outlive...
...President Charles E. Mitchell of the National City Bank of New York. Neither very naturally will talk for publication, and whether they will undertake to fund the aggravating loan of $48,000,000 can only be conjectured, But that they have hitherto proved reluctant to do so is a fair deduction from their waiting policy during a period when new security offerings have been readily subscribed, and when rising money rates have foreshadowed a temporary slump in prices for seasoned bond issues...
...form the book follows step by step the events of the day's celebration. Beginning with the initial address by Jusace Sanferd in Sanders theatre and ending with President Eliot's response and the singing of "Fair Harvard," it chronicles each speech and action of the brilliant assemblage. The expressions of appreciation and affection by all the illustrious men who spoke to the gathering are published in full, and the written greetings of Harvard Clubs, Legislatures, and other representative societies are included in their original form...
Granted that these conditions are general, is it quite fair to put all the blame on the college? Is the existence of such a state of affairs more than a reflection of the general attitude of the American people? If the undergraduate prefers billiards to books, and bridge to essays, it is hardly fair to load upon the universities blame which falls more justly upon the homes and schools. Some visitors have marvelled at the colleges' ability to awaken any spirit of scholarship in the stolid and uninterested material dumped upon them yearly. The patient camels scarcely deserve this last...