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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...protege of Editor Frank Crowninshield, Anglophile, told universities in general and philanthropists in particular that to hasten "America's intellectual Golden Age," what lacks is the Oxonian tinge. He said: "All Souls college at Oxford . . . is an exclusive club of intellectual swells, picked graduates of other colleges who live, at the expense of the foundation, in a kind of divine idleness...
...recognition of man's true relation to the society of which he is part", and defined the primary object of a college education as the fitting of "each student most adequately to perform his proper functions as an essential part of the social structure in which he is to live and move and have his being...
...Liberia Bella, you are trampled, you are ravished! . . . Will no one but Zaniboni cry 'Long live Liberty...
...these Armours lived three or four more years, President Roosevelt would have flayed them personally. As it was he pilloried their company as one of the vicious "trusts." It was that, for Philip D. Armour I, privately honest and eleemosynary, was in commerce ruthless. Like John D. Rockefeller Sr. in oil, he forced railroads to rebate him part of his payments for meat and grain transportation. Competitors suffered. Also like the elder Mr. Rockefeller, he made legitimate money by avoiding wastes and making savings in his business. Philip D. Armour I invented the scheme of utilizing every part...
Margaret, Wilfrid, Stephen, Mollie, Robin, Angela live in an English country house. In the beginning of the book they have tea in the nursery, go to school, behave like English children. The close and careful breeding that feeds the playing fields of Eton is theirs. Later the restraint of this upbringing makes differing marks on their characters. Mollie foregoes her music and submits to fate and a father who tends his children without tenderness. Margaret's nerves, sharpened by inhibitions, end by shattering her mind. Wilfrid, a normal eldest son, inherits peace and his father's lands. Robin...