Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was not much out of the ordinary in the story Liberty printed. No sad tale of Miss Oelrichs' life did it tell. Instead, it purported to be her opinion of the state of "desperation" in which the modern society girl finds herself. "I have become convinced," the story went, "that if you took equal numbers of rich girls and of others in moderate circumstances, you would find among the latter infinitely more contentment, greater freedom, and truer happiness. . . . 'Are you happy?' I have asked so many well born and rich girls I know. Their answer...
...clubs, attending Broadway openings, working for Saks Fifth Avenue, Manhattan smartmart and such odd jobs as chaperoning Aviatrix Ruth Elder, to whom she introduced her curious and well-bred friends. Sad though her story might be to a gum-chewing public, Miss Oelrichs has declared that she enjoys her life, including the moneymaking...
...wrote The Road to Buenos Aires. His latest excursion-to Africa, through French Sudan, the High Volta, the Ivory Coast, Togoland, Dahomey, the Congo-disclosed a black slave traffic. The native African, says he, is a "banana engine" making the roads of a continent at the expense of his life. He may work a month on banana fuel, then find himself owing eleven francs because of huge taxes. Other Londres observations: 1) in French Africa a white man who strikes a black gets fined 25 francs; 2) native Africans practice true communism; 3) all Europe's old clothes...
...education of today. Among them, very naturally, was the Hon. William Howard Taft, who responded to the invitation with a critical piece that set a thousand tongues aquiver. In an interview with Frazier Hunt in the current "Cosmopolitan" the Chief Justice returns to his theme. "The emphasis in college life is wrong", he insists. And he proceeds to expatiate on the submergence of scholarship in extra-curricula activities and especially athletics. "The stadium," he says, "overshadows the classroom--athletics have a dollar sign in front of them...
...students of the subject will quarrel with his description of the disease. Predominant in every American college and university at present are the social activities of student life, and of these the most important, from the point of view of the public, are the athletic. Membership in the varsity football team represents the peak of undergraduate attainment, and from that the scale of values grades down through the lesser sports, through the glee and mandolin clubs, the dramatic society and the comic weekly to the bottom of scholastic excellence. Education, the nominal object of every college student, plays second fiddle...