Word: fashionableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about town, from time immemorial, the beau ideal of tailors, is fast yielding his place to the college man. As one scans the magazine and newspaper advertisements one is soon struck with the high opinion which Fashion Park holds concerning the collegiate mode--that is collegiate in the college sense and not as depicted in the moving pictures. Each college (with the marked and poignant exception of Harvard) has its best dressed man who enthusiastically recommends collars, shirts, ties and sundry haberdashery. If one wishes to be attired correctly--in a manner neat but emphatically not gaudy--one must wear...
...Every meal should have its social aspect," he continued. "There is no better place for men to talk matters over then at a dinner-table. With the present fashion of taking a hurried meal at a cafeteria, such intercourse and discussion is entirely eliminated from the menu, and young men in college are the losers thereby. Remembrances of table conversations should be among the pleasantest of college memories, and every college man should have an eating place where he will have the opportunity of leisurely luncheon talk with his friends...
...philanthropies. He donated $100,000 towards the Chicago Y. M. C. A. hotel, $50,000 for the Smith College development fund, and $50,000 to the Art Institute of Chicago. He: gave considerable time to improving the physical appearance of the city. Lastly, to perpetuate his name in worthy fashion, he gave $3,000,000 to build, an aquarium in Chicago, for which he sent a commission to study aquaria abroad-the invertebrate collection at Naples, biological research at Monaco, artificial salinity at Berlin, lighting in London. The Shedd Aquarium, now under construction, will contain 131 exhibition tanks with some...
...exhilaration of various members should soil the name of the House, thereby giving one reason to wonder just what he thought to be done about it anyway. The coal affair has already caused considerable governmental confusion, and if every issue that arises is to be met in this desultory fashion, it is to be feared that the present majority of Conservatives--both toping and tee-totaling factions--will soon evaporate...
...University, The Influence of Extra-Curricula Activities upon College Life, The Place of Athletics in Education. Nor are these subjects which fail either in suggestiveness or practicality. If the undergraduate is to share in the development of his own institution of learning in a same and constructive fashion, these are topics vital to his interests...