Word: keepings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about Harvard that are written every year for public consumption, from the discussions in the Harvard Graduates' Magazine, from the educational controversies of the Advocate and the epistolary tempests of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, it is clear that Harvard men are almost fiercely interested in their College, that they keep focused upon it a critical attention of peculiar intensity. The healthiness of so constant an inward direction of the critical eyes has been doubted; it has even been named morbid, a kind of introversion. If this were so, the alumni themselves could be counted on to make the most...
...pitche of his college life. If it is well fixed, the Freshman can be sure that his useful individualisms will have been canalized, and that whatever admiration he had for the surface symbols of Harvard will have been replaced by a sense of a tradition that needs replenishment to keep it alive...
...General Strike times "Jumping Jack" was one of the most popular Laborites in England and the enfant terrible of the House of Commons. Nowadays, with jobs scarce and employers holding the whip hand, Mr. Jones no longer jumps. His howlers down cried, "Keep out the Reds, but let all the rest...
Good Boy. In the effort to bring novelty to the musical show, Arthur Hammerstein sliced up his stage in the most extraordinary manner, running treadmills from wing to wing so that sets could be switched without new backdrops, and so that his actors, trotting briskly along to keep pace with the changing scenery, had a little bit the look of squirrels in a cage or the race horses in the last act of The Girl from Kentucky...
...though students of modern science would destroy reverence and faith. I do not know how that can be said of the student who stands daily in the presence of what seems to him to be the Infinite. Science is not setting forth to destroy the soul, but to keep body and soul together." In this he took a view opposite to that of retiring President Sir Arthur Keith, who at Leeds last year emphasized the finity of human effort (TIME, Sept...