Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after that, as the school year books say, comes life; and long before that have come gentlemen, successful in business, to guide the graduate from the groves to the market-place. Some will be bond salesmen, and wax financial in the company of State Street's rulers; some will find their end and aim behind a Woolworth red front; some will be realtors, though of course never Babbits. But enough of business pure: romance, too, has a word in what the graduate shall do. Hollywood, even from an administrative office, allures: but by the tropics the palm is held most...
...often that one finds a book written purely and frankly with no ulterior motive but to give pleasure to the reader. It is the fashion with contemporary novelists to try to draw a picture of life as they see it, and for the most part they see it--darkly. For the most part, as a result, while their stories may be interesting for any one of a number of reasons, they are not always pleasant...
There is, it is practically safe to say, no one who at certain times is not willing to leav the rock bottom of daily life for an excursion among the clouds. For such a one at such a time "Love and the Ladies." All that is necessary is that one surrender himself to Mrs. Abbott's imagination and timid, flowing style, and he will without doubt spend a few most delicious and restful hours
...American public formed its impression of college life solely by reading the comic strips and the average humorous magazine, it might have good reason to believe that our universities are places where half-baked young men in alcoholic stupors congregate to indulge in petty vices. But fortunately, most sane individuals are capable of discounting such pictures of the college student, and see in these caricatures nothing more than a grotesque and rather obvious attempt at humor. This is, however, a more sinister type of publicity concerning the undergraduate which is designed to catch the eyes of scandal-loving readers...
Good taste and a proper sense of proportion are not to be expected in newspapers of this type. But when they repeatedly stoop to such methods of attracting attention, and advertise indecent tales of their own concoetion as being typical of university life, they cease to deserve the confidence of the public Yale News