Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Searching questions are the fashion of the day. In a world where economy reigns, every institution, every activity must justify itself. It is essential that higher education be subjected to the same skeptical analysis as everything else. Such analysis will have an impact on the individual student as well as on the system as a whole...
Searching questions are the fashion of the day. In a world where economy reigns, every institution, every activity must justify itself. It is essential that higher education be subjected to the same skeptical analysis as everything else. Such analysis will have an impact on the individual student as well as on the system as a whole...
...Admirers of Silly Symphonies have lately been delighted to see that instead of using black & white line drawings as heretofore, Artist Disney is now making Silly Symphonies in color. Current release, King Neptune, is a bizarre romance in which a brown boatload of pirates is punished in silly-symphonic fashion for molesting a collection of sleek mermaids with green tails. Blue fish bombard the pirate boat with caviar which they spit out of their mouths like cannon balls; flying fish, improved to resemble airplanes, take off smoothly from the flat spinal cord of a good-humored whale; octopi wave their...
...measured rhythm of 2400 polished boots falling as one announce to the Charles the most glamorous of fall contests. Buffalo, Yale, Holy Cross, Dartmouth, all can furnish but dull counter-parts of Harvard, like Harvard preparing grubbing, grubbing, grubbing students with the elements of an education with which to fashion life. But with the Cadets comes a romance more real, more vital, than the round of artificial pleasures offered by the Somerset, Beacon Hill, and the Brattles. The trim uniforms, the electric response to crisp commands, the venerable joke about the mule, these combine to give a sense of purpose...
...leader went on, as he, Mrs. Thomas, and their youngest daughter were walking from the Socialist Party head quarters to the Tremont Temple, where he addressed a large gathering last night. "Nine out of ten college students have no political mind of their own, and vote merely after the fashion of their family's political ties and sympathies. The majority of the social class who send their children to college, are Republican, and therefore it is not surprising that Boover should be such a favorite in college polls. Likewise, it certainly is not to the credit of the college...