Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average student has no true opinions of his own because he has no knowledge of the objects of opinion. What he thinks he knows about his college is too often only a series of impressions and images which have become grouped about certain aspects of college life. The word "football" brings to mind one set of images; the sight of a text book or the tolling of the chapel bell, another. As a general rule, the pictures made in his head do not correspond in more than the slightest degree to reality...
During the last century wood engraving sank from the level of an infinitely skillful art, for the invention of photo-graphic processes seemed to displace it. About 15 years ago it came to life again with a new technique, as a medium in, which many creative artists chose to express themselves. Through an expert use of the peculiar qualities of the wood, effects of rare beauty can be obtained, which are distinctly different from those of the etching...
...theme of the show is based on the college life at Peckwater College. The athletes of this mythical school play an important part in depicting the life there. The comedy lead is played by an ex-prize fighter, while the climax of the performance comes during the baseball game between Peckwater and Crawford. A unique method is to be used to portray this game on the stage, according to the directors of the play...
...instance, will the men be selected to occupy the various small social units? The purpose of the plan being avowedly a social improvement over the present conditions, will this end be better attained by segregating men with one dominating interest, or shall a cross section of college life be sought? If instituted at Yale, would the undergraduate rebel against attempts to separate him from his friends? For the theory of the small college entails complete absorption in the life of the one college chosen. What would be the status of the fraternity under such a plan? What the role...
...Harvard undergraduates will not be forced into sociability and collegettes. It has always been the spirit of "individualism" that has dominated life in the University,--the tradition founded with the college 293 years ago. On the historic grounds of old Cambridge, the student body, led by the Lampoon, are emulating their New England ancestors; possibly they are staging a little Boston Tea Party of their own to defend their traditional and customary rights to eat, sleep and choose their own friends and companions...