Word: formely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amount of monetary assistance; but to be the editor of a mere "Lit" is to obtain neither. Moreover (Mr. Bailey feels) to be an editor of a mere "Lit" is, ipso facto, to inherit a thankless task. He suggests that nobody wants such a magazine; that in its pure form it cannot be self-supporting; and that therefore in the nature of things, it must try to compromise. It must not too zealously devote itself to "aesthetic outpourings", because "it is admittedly difficult to get our undergraduate to read any sort of professed literary endeavor". In the cir- cumstances, should...
...great hue and outcry about Miss Byrne. She had hired a lawyer to get her reinstated to her class room. Her friends said that she had been persecuted, that she had been ousted on prejudice rather than for her inability. "What," they asked, "is a 'paranoid form of psychosis'?" Reporters came to see Mary Byrne. They found her wearing a hat, looking grim, fiddling aimlessly with some papers that some one had given her. To all questions she replied: "I can't say anything-it wouldn't be professional." Another doctor investigated Miss Byrne; found...
Before long, Mrs. Elliot became an invalid. She would call Emily into her room and the two of them would discuss Mrs. Fletcher. Emily was too weak to oppose her mother's economies that took, among other things, the form of selling the furniture and buying clothes at second-hand sales. Mrs. Elliot would push herself up in bed and stare at the pale, frightened child. "She clutched her granddaughter's wrist and shook her arm 'Don't you understand? You must resist her. . . . Why, if I were your age, knowing her as I do, knowing...
...that all Yale was there in a body; in such numbers, in fact, that to cross the floor was a suicidal undertaking. Only at a Harvard party can one behold girls who are known to one's family shining in an atmosphere at once Rabelaisian and refined, overlooking the form and enjoying the substance of the spirit of revelry rampant...
Where are there such hosts as at Harvard? Where indeed? Harvard men are charming. The cannot be said to aim at, for the essentially are, good form. They have raised the genial practices of hedonism to the point of polished art. Half of them for instance, would no more think of studying without a glass and bottle at hand than the other half would of studying under any circumstances. The have the happy faculty of taking nothing seriously, least of all football: a virus of which Yale might do well to absorb a little. For intrinsic vigor and communal health...