Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mild hostility that has been aroused by the growing strength of this latest graduate school is entirely groundless. Those who fear a contamination of the ideals by the necessarily commercial spirit of the Business School are placing a cheap estimate on these ideals--their strength and worth. The development of the Business School is rather to be commended as the one satisfactory solution of the problem that is now perplexing Williams...
...person who puts a price tag on everything he sees and a label on everything he thinks. Most musicians pride themselves on not being gimmicks. To differentiate themselves from this clan, they wear their hair longer; their neckties, their phrases, are more picturesque. The only criticism they fear is the accusation that they fear criticism, that they are trying to make themselves as gimmicks are. Not so Vincent Lopez, famed jazzbo. Music, he says, should ape business. Orchestras should have labels, price tags; the labels should stand for quality. Jazz is a commodity, like canned food. It should be retailed...
...surrender the University into the prying, meddling hands of an ever changing legislature is in effect what Mr. Blanchard and his associates would accomplish. The fear that a University administration will make itself subservient to big business interests is not one whit as terrifying as the thought that the machinations of logrolling of a typical legislative body can finally be made to control the destinies of Harvard...
...good Americans must discard their winter footgear by the first of May, if they dare to appear upon the streets. The annual straw hat joke is perpetrated so thoroughly that to the vulgar mind a soft hat seems ridiculous after a certain date. Advertising and the mob's fear of itself have set this barbaric custom beyond the reach of common sense. If the boot and shoe dealers succeed in their resolution of attaching another lichen to the American moss-back, he on this side of the Atlantic will soon be unbearable...
Future Harvard students who work their way through college need not fear that they will lost by the new tuition fee for the faculty made the following interesting provision: All Scholarships and fellowships awarded to students paying the increased fee in Harvard College, the Engineering School, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and paid from funds in the hands of the University are to be increased $50 each...