Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doctrine of the Immaculate Conception and the dogma of the infallibility of the Pope.' The Catholics of the Episcopal Church are willing to render obedience to the Pope as the chief of bishops; they balk at infallibility and cherish the hope that in some unforeseen fashion the bars may be lowered that they may enter in. 'Do you think that will ever be?' I asked. The only answer was a shrug of the shoulders...
...first of the misfortunes that have beset Brown all season occurred in the Pennsylvania game, when Stephens, who had been filling the great Eckstein's shoes at center in fine fashion, was badly injured. His loss meant the shifting of Hodge from tackle to center, with Magee going to tackle...
...meetings between competing steel companies may be resumed without fear of the law. In behalf of the suggestion, Mr. Gary expressed his opinion that such meetings would serve to "stabilize" the industry. But it is doubted that he will sponsor the move by banqueting his competitors in the former fashion...
There is, however, one great and radical difference between the literature of today and that of the eighteenth century, which makes the similarity of this age and that of Pope nothing more than a one-sided resemblance. The neoclassical age was preeminently an age of form. Today the fashion runs to formlessness. Instead of the stately heroic couplet, poetry now flies to the freedom of vers libre. Instead of the terse, direct prose of Swift, satire now expresses itself in the genial lunacy of Donald Ogden Stewart or Ronald Fairbank...
...Brown mean to assert that the first business of a college is to produce preachers? If he does, the CRIMSON can only say that it disagrees with him. And aside from this implication, is it not probable that incipient persons deliberately choose a college where compulsory religion is the fashion? If so, compulsion itself hardly seems the cause of their following in the way which the Dean thinks they should...