Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instructors and tutors who have an active interest in all Departments of the University. If this were done, advisers could devote a fair amount of time and trouble to Freshman problems, not only making intelligent suggestions as to curriculum, but also discussing all sorts of outside activity. In this fashion, perhaps by monthly evening gatherings, the adviser would be in close touch with his advisees, helping them, if possible, to avoid scholastic and general difficulties. To accomplish this successfully, since most advisers are men engaged in graduate study, they should receive sufficient compensation for serving one of the greatest needs...
...speaker who looks up arguments, arranges them in outline form, and reels them off in more or less impassioned fashion is engaged in exposition; he is not really debating. For the essence of debating is give and take. The speakers should bring up a point, toss it back and forth, crush it between two fires, restore it to life, balance it against another factor, and present it to their audience in fresh relationships. To facilitate this contact each speaker formerly spoke twice. Now rarely more than one speaker to a side speaks for the second time, and the non-memorized...
...impossible to make good traditional Republicans out of young persons infected with the heresies of university theorists." The only solution he can offer to this ever-increasing problem, which is presented in the accompanying press clipping, is to lead American youth to citizenship in some new and hitherto undiscovered fashion, entirely independent, of the evils of education...
...them partook of our recent terrible trials [the World War] and fought valorously and gloriously at our side for the defense and the triumph of a great cause. In the course of that struggle our community of cultural interests and sentiment affirmed itself in so striking a fashion that I am convinced the memory of it will always remain living and active in our hearts...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Ludwig van Beethoven were contemporaries, but it was long before they met, not long before they parted. In these four essays Remain Rolland, music-lover, Goethe expert, discussed in scholarly but readable fashion their queer relationship toward each other and toward the enthusiastic girl who tried to bring them together...