Word: fashionableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...success of the "baby dean" system, inaugurated by Dean Greenough several years ago rests largely on the degree of personal contact established between the dean and the members of his class. True, the juvenile administrative officer must be dignified if possible and even scholarly after a fashion, but above all he must possess the qualifications which will enable him to look at scholastic pitfalls through the eyes of the undergraduate whom he serves. Under ordinary-circumstances this ideal can only be served by constant renewal and change in the personnel of University 4. Thus, it is with mixed feelings...
Since riding Harry Payne Whitney's Whiskery to victory in the Kentucky Derby, Jockey Linus ("Pony") McAtee has twice broken into the news in unconventional fashion. A fortnight ago, he won a one-horse race ("walkover") at Belmont Park, N. Y. Last week, he escaped death because he wore a metal and fibre helmet. He was riding the capricious two-year-old colt, Silenus, which bolted through a temporary fence and crashed in a heap against a permanent fence at Belmont Park. While struggling to crawl out from under Silenus, Jockey McAtee received a swift kick in the helmet...
...personal element in collegiate journalism of the period is plainly seen in the printing of this article. In these late times it is not the fashion for the journals of the larger masculine universities to run special dispatches from their dainty neighbors, but in the Elegant Eighties the editors decided that news was scarce, and after all it was spring, and gave out bulletins calculated to cheer the hearts of their readers. The social revelation of Vassar follows...
...Chamber of Deputies passed through two momentous, enlightening hours last week. Benito Mussolini came and spoke from the tribune in reasoned, winning, even humorous fashion...
...Significance. It is not unjust to imply that for Mrs. Wharton's characters the most dangerous weapon of destruction would be a paper cutter. They are fragile figures which resemble" those outlined in fashion magazines for the socially ambitious to cut out. The narrative, as usual in Mrs. Wharton's books, is pursued with neo-Jamesian traps and snares, rather than less subtle hounds and horn. Her methods have not kept pace with her times, her subject matter, her ambition as social observer. Narration by implication, which seemed wise and successful in The House of Mirth, has, after...