Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...musical romance, that built about the love-story of a composer would seem to be the easiest to present and the most successful. Such, unfortunately, is not the case. The latest attempt, on the boards at the Majestic, entitled "White Lilacs," a romance with music, based on the life of Frederic Chopin, has all the failings and few of the fortes of the genre. That is to say, one does not enjoy fully either Chopin's music, or Herr Johannsen's play: the first because the music was almost wholly written for the pianoforte, not orchestra with voices...
Into American political life Franklin Roosevelt has brought something of which his countrymen may be proud. In the beginning of his career he fought machine politics and laid the foundation for the reorganization of his party, winning for it the confidence of the people of the State. Later he was called to Washington as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, where he had his share in the handling of peculiarly difficult war-time problems. Then came an attack of illness, after which he cut short his convalescence in order to take up the fight for his party in the campaign...
...establishing the House plan Harvard authorities hope not only to foster a broader and more pervasive social life among undergraduates but also to stimulate intimacy between students and teachers. Toward the realization of both these ends the position of House master in the new residential groups will be one of pivotal importance. Without the proper personal force to give it vitality the entire experiment might easily fail of an ultimate significance beyond the addition of several building units to the Harvard plant...
...answer is probably to be found in the unique character of college life. The conception of an existence at once free from financial responsibility and separated from family ties is far from generally the case in any college; yet there is sufficient element of truth to give it a glamor that sets it apart from the more usual way of living. It follows that the same interest in the unfamiliar and mysterious that gives the tabloids their circulation will, when applied to another field, produce equally distorted results. The stenographer who devours the latest love-nest scandal and the matron...
...prominent roommates; at college they arise at 5 o'clock in the morning to seek advertising for "The Yale News," and they spend their week ends on Long Island and Park Avenue, ostensibly dancing with debutantes but really seeking the acquaintance of prominent business men. The goal of undergraduate life at Yale, according to Mr. Pringle, is to make a final club, having achieved which the young man concentrates upon more prominent acquaintances and the search for a rich wife. Princeton Mr. Pringle finds more democratic than Yale, but also infested with young men "on the make," and Harvard...