Word: hooted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite past time of flaying a large and select gathering of public idols. In the very beginning he states quite definitely the basis for his critical idiosyncrasy. "To me, pleasure and my own personal happiness . . . only infrequently collaborating with that of others . . . are all that I deem worth a hoot." More in the tone of a personal philosophy rather than criticism he goes on to say that to have money in one's pockets, easily available gastronomic delicacies, and freedom of expression are all that one can reasonably expect from life. As a part of this life of ease...
...writer in the Saturday Review of Literature has commented on the weekend exodus from colleges with less satire and more acumen than was displayed in a recent article on the same subject in the Harkness Hoot. Various expedients have been suggested recently to relieve the tedium of the average academic Sabbath, but the one factor that is most in tune with the scholastic scheme of things has escaped observation...
When the Harkness Hoot declared that the house members "were wallowing in luxury", it at least brought out an implication of dampness...
...current number of the Harkness Hoot, which appeared yesterday at Yale, Harvard's culture is attacked in an article entitled, "The Cultural Stato of Harvard" written by a member of the University. The author says that only a few men come to Harvard for culture. "The great number are here because of the social obligation and because they'll get better Jobs," he declares. "If you want to be cultured you stay for an M.A. If you want to push it to absurdity, you stay for a Ph.D...
From the standpoint of journalistic timeliness, the editors of The Harkness Hoot had the good fortune to defend elsewhere in their current issue the gubernatorial candidacy of Dr. Wilbur Lucius Cross, Dean Emeritus of the Yale Graduate School, now Governor-elect of Connecticut. And the announcement of a forthcoming appreciation of Author Sinclair Lewis, Yale 1907, coincided happily with last week's news that Author Lewis had won the Nobel Prize...