Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This effusiveness, however, might not have been fully justified by the curriculum offered. The most popular course was Physical Training. In an era of prim Victorianism and sublimated libidinal longings, the sight of such exercise aroused a certain amount of comment. The Boston Herald, in its August 9th issue of 1903, raised its staid eyebrows at some of the activities going on in Hemenway Gymnasium...
...common, even in these days, when exercise for women is generally approved, as to loose [sic] any of its novelty. And the girls do some good work, too. They take aptly to Mr. Graham's coaching and some of them acquire as good form as the men." The Herald coyly went on to point out that crowds of Cambridge men gathered each afternoon to watch the bloomer-clad girls exercise, and that two marriages of Summer School students had already taken place...
...recognized in the Gilded Decade of the 90's. Popular health beliefs centered around the notion that summers should be restful, not devoted to scholarly endeavor. Poring over books for twelve months of the year was considered unwise, leading possibly to illness or lack of vigor. The staid Boston Herald once again fixed a jaundiced eye upon the Harvard campus, editorializing in part...
...Herald' Attacks...
...staid Boston Herald stirred up the biggest tempest with an editorial, "Arts Festival Bludgeon," followed by an avalanche (poorly reasoned, for the most part) of letters to the editor, and another editorial. The first editorial accused the Festival of intentionally "propagandizing" abstractionism, and quoted in support of its stand some remarks by its art critic, Robert Taylor. Internecine strife resulted when Taylor, in hearty disagreement with the editorial, had to have recourse to the letters column in order to disassociate himself from his paper's policy...