Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...home and receive in person his righteous adulation. Some say that his welcome was the beginning of the spectacle era in the U. S.a wood and plaster triumphal arch in Manhattan (reputed to be "a labor of love"), massed flag waving and horn blowing, loving cups, a sword of honor from President McKinley, so much handshaking that the idol's hand became painfully swollen...
Nine days has been set as the proverbial duration of a world wonder, but twelve days have elapsed since Captain Charles Lindbergh flew from New York to Paris, and still the tide of popular laudations is at flood. But praise and honor are becoming adulterated by that morbid interest which the public loves to take in its heroes. The old policy of sentimental advertising is followed: a popular song has appeared in his honor, and Parisian cafes have doubtless added a dash to absinthe to some drink and christened the concoction after the flyer...
Human nature is fair enough not to impute to its leaders the desire for glory as a motivating force, but it does insist that glory be the consequence of a brave advance. Where thought of honor played no part in the inspiration to action, honor, especially of the tawdry vaudeville variety, is out of place following the consummation of the deed. All glory adulation and honor to the pioneers, but when humanity makes step onward and upward without ringing bells whose clamor grows harsh, and firing too loud cannon, that will be news...
...Commonwealth Fund, established in 1918 by the late Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness of Manhattan, announced last week the names of 23 honor graduates of British universities, to whom it has awarded fellowships amounting to $125,000 for two years' study in U. S. universities...
...Yale Daily News last week suggested that the highest honor for graduating students on Commencement Day "will be the novel privilege of seeing the President of Yale University [Dr. James Rowland Angell]. Of course, those who do not receive the sheepskin will have completed their four years without resting eyes on this personage. This picture of conditions is a little overdrawn, but the fact remains that at no time during the college year does the President meet the student body...