Word: loafer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, one of these editors compiled a supplement called Shells?a critique of college architecture in the U. S. Posing as a "Loafer," he pondered the causes and meanings behind university structures. "The finished shell," said he, "represents the ideals of the college, the type of its education, . . . imagination, independence, . . . enslavement to shadows, to predetermined notions, petrifactions, parchment, self-adulation, pretense and the higher bunk...
...This Loafer obtained views of Yale's famed Harkness Quadrangle, quoted Prof. William Lyon Phelps there-anent: " 'My eyes filled with tears. . . . The features of the skyline change as rapidly and as tenderly as the face of a breathing alma mater, beholding her children. . . . The buildings stand in the midst of traffic, a monument to the life of the spirit?they are as accessible...
...give him a struggle to keep his winnings, a nervous breakdown in the crisis. That gets sympathy. It will be more easily visualized if you locate the Emporium in London. Your love theme will be Watling's daughter, who should have been his son, and the amiable loafer of whom she makes a keen business...
...result of the deepened interest in intellectual pursuits must not be overlooked," says Professor Moore. "To do a man's best, according to his ability, in whatever he puts his hand and mind to, is properly reckoned a sure test of character; the slacker and loafer are rightly despised. To stimulate young men to do their best in college is to help them build the character that should result from a college education...
...result of the deepened interest in intellectual pursuits must not be overlooked. To do a man's best, according to his ability, in whatever he puts his hand and mind to is properly reckoned a sure test of character: the slacker and loafer are rightly despised. To stimulate young men to do their best in college is to help them build the character that should result from a college education...