Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college is to make a name and perhaps a professional position have no place in amateur sport. But the athlete of small means who is honestly aiming for the best in a university education should not be shut out from benefits, physical or social, because some friendly alumnus sees fit to assist him with funds...
Lampy's latest venture, the current Dramatic Number, is a distinct improvement over certain earlier numbers which unkind critics in these columns have seen fit to treat with contumely and disrespect. Nevertheless it reminds one, vaguely enough perhaps, of the little girl in the nursery rhyme, who when she was good was very, very good, and when she was had was--punk. It runs in streaks, like bacon or barber poles or layer cakes...
Critics of American letters have been harping on this theme for the past four or five decades, and a recent writer in the "North American Review", sees fit to ask "How great are We Americans"? Great, that is, in artistic or literary fame. Evidently forty-million-word efforts, prodigious though they be, are not accounted sufficient of themselves. There must be something more than a deal of ink and the ability to spin a yarn. Who was it that called genius "an infinite capacity for taking pains...
...ambitions" which makes the home atmosphere of far-reaching importance in the success of the student. And Mr. Gavit quite rightly criticises the family--that is, the hypothetical average family--because it does not set standards of culture, or because it coddles too much, or because it does not fit a boy to reap even a reasonable amount of profit from formal education. Here is the conclusion...
...present-day passion for whole-sale analysis the undergraduate is serving his turn. The "what" and "why" of everything the college man does is sifted, weighed and from it are deduced generalizations to fit a pattern rather than an individual. Those of us who are occupied in the pursuit of parchment letters to add to our names are all lumped together--by a writer in the "Transcript" as "that painful figure--the college boy." The same philosopher concludes his dissertation by advising us that the sooner we accept with "strong humility" Thackeray's dictum that at twenty...