Word: frothing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Altogether, Mr. Lewis' withdrawal restores a harmless status quo. The prize will simply be reawarded. Of course there are those who will discover not only sensitiveness, but downright disdain in Mr. Lewis and will froth accordingly. And there will be those also, loyal to the author's point of view, who will harm his reputation by imputing characteristics to the award at which he never hinted. But beyond these are the people who know a triviality when they see one, who will grant the man the right to his pet aversions and to the Pulitzers. Their fair administration...
...among the men of known worth who would have liked to attend that meeting was Dr. W. T. Grenfell, famed "Angel of Labrador," explorer, missioner. He wrote in a letter: "We always stood for keeping Sunday as a day of rest among our deep-sea fishermen, and all this froth talk by selfish and self-indulgent people about Blue Laws and the throwing about of cynicism can never affect the issue. Those people and those collections of people called nations, where Sunday is kept as a day of rest, are the best and happiest every time...
...those who are interested only in the grand problems of the universe and this, its man infested planet, a tiny riot in a university is no more than froth on a minute wave of trouble. But to the legions who mass themselves within the halls of learning oven such a petty turmoil has its interest. Even an occasional son of Harvard, fresh returned from divisional examinations, may question the judgments of the lesser gods. But whatever powers exist in what some more caustic critics have termed Caves, need not be too alarmed by the rude murmurs heard about the streets...
...college life in particular, now appearing in many college papers. In some of them, at least, vagaries have given place to direct and definite analysis. The Dartmouth, for example, has seized upon some of the salient faults of "this generation of ours." Says the Hanover paper: "We are the froth of the post-war wave. This generation of ours has perverted freedom as a means of escaping obligation--has lost appreciation respect--humility--reverence. This generation of ours is intolerant stereotyped complacently smug cowardly ignorant." What has all this to do with education? It is the very problem of education...
...Boston newspapers attribute rather rough treatment to Dr. Straton at the hands of the Harvard students, but it is a question whether this treatment was any more than was deserved by one who would insult the intelligence of college men by skimming the froth off a serious religious discussion and presenting a mass of sensational statements, unsupported by reason of fact.--expecting students to capitulate under bombastic oratory. It is significant that the sympathies of the audience were openly in agreement with the man who accused Dr. Straton of "arguing in circles", "evading the issue", and "failing to present...