Word: highbrowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite the chilly, highbrow attitude of The Crimson in scoring "the silly antics of mascots," is it not human to have a pet, to cherish some symbolic creature? And does not the horse-play of the rival mascots and their keepers afford the spectators much good, wholesome amusement in the midst of a tense athletic struggle when opposing bloods are apt to become warm? Poor Harvard has not even the memory of a nice, docile, little bear like "Touchdown" whose presence was so helpful in 1915 when the Big Red Team administered a drubbing to the Crimson eleven...
...outlining the policy of a magazine they had decided to publish? The New Yorker. "The purpose," they said, "of The New Yorker will be to reflect New York life through its treatment of the lives and personalities of the day. It will not be what is called radical or highbrow. It will be what is called sophisticated . . . will publish facts which it will have to go behind the scenes to get . . . hopes to reflect metropolitan life." Then said someone: "It will not be edited for the old lady in Dubuque...
Undoubtedly, the Graphic did not hatch its idea from The New York Evening Post, for, since no Graphic reader would be likely to look at such a "highbrow" paper, the same might apply to its editors?and, besides, the Post did not offer prizes for last lines. However, the Encyclopedia Britannica, in its 1911 edition, remarked: "In recent years, competitions of the 'missing word' type have had a considerable vogue, the competitor, for instance, having to supply the last line of the limerick...
...success of my publications in other cities [Boston and Lynn] has convinced me that a newspaper can find a field in any city if that newspaper loyally serves the plain people. There are two many organs of class, too many highbrow journals concerned only with the vagaries of the rich, and there are too few newspapers telling of the hopes and fears, the joys and sorrows, of the plain people...
...Will some popular jazz composer acquire the technique that is necessary to raise his work out of the jazz class or will some 'highbrow' composer make use of the principles of jazz? I don't know. It may reach out either way. The danger is that in the process the jazz will lose its original flavor. The result would be a hopeless failure. A symphonic composition is not good just because it is a symphonic composition--jazz is not bad just because it is jazz...