Word: isn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...office between April and June seeking surcease from the throes of graduation, wondering what he is to do with his awakened, sensitive self in a cold, hard world. Says Teacher Edman: "The problem of giving Richard advice would have been simplified if he were a genius. He isn't. He is simply one of a constant group who come to college and become genuinely attached to what its defamers call the higher life. He is, if you will, living beyond his intellectual income. He is a dilettante, an amateur, what he once ruefully called himself- a "Nearly." He knows...
...selected his courses there comes the all-important question what to "go in for." Practically every boarding school boy finds for himself some special interest, either athletics, a managerial job, or a position on a college publication. All this sort of thing is excellent in its place, but isn't it stressed too much...
...than to rival professional magazines. That is excuse enough for the very patronizing book review. It doesn't excuse, however, such unintelligible verse as the Sonnet. One always hesitates to confess missing the point of a poem obviously subtle for fear that like the folk in the fable one isn't worthy of his office if he fails to see the magic garment of the king; as for this sonnet I for one can make neither head nor tail of it. The other verse is adequate, nothing more...
...strange individuals in it masquerading as Deans? Can one of them be Mr. Whitney? We should like pleasantly to remark first that the "multitude of shins" idea, embodied in one of Ibis's "inklings" is as old, about, as Don Marquis (He isn't really very old); secondly, that the apologies under the "letter of a Japanese Freshman"--and quite the best bit of prose in the issue--would be more in order if made to the original author of the Schoolboy Epistles, Mr. Wallace Irwin, rather than to the fictitious and mysterious Ervine. Having been wholly disagreeable thus...
...turned against you for four reasons: First, my life's dream had been the Constituent Assembly. You smashed it; and iron entered my soul. I was wrong. Our Russia isn't ready for self-government. You knew it; and I didn't. I admit my fault...