Word: loafing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grind," be dropped from undergraduate vocabularies. Because he refuses to be conventional, the conscientious student is despised. The idea of the "gentleman's C," which has become a popular excuse for mediocrity, is a conventionality of thought which is turning Harvard from a College into a convenient place to loaf and be great. Fathers accept the grade without complaint; sons, long before they come to college, determine to work for nothing higher. Extra-curriculum distinction, with all its empty pride, false hopes, and insignificant rewards, claims the undergraduate's attention while his books remain closed on his desk. So restless...
...attending public theatricals) assembled with a score of guests. Howard Thurston arrived with a moving van full of paraphenalia. With ducks, geese, pigeons, rabbits he prestidigitated. Then he took the President's watch, a gift from the Massachusetts Legislature, smashed it with a hammer, called for a loaf of bread from the kitchen. It was brought. Mrs. Coolidge cut it; and who would believe it??the watch appeared within, quite whole...
...easy for a man who wishes to loaf to take the "grind" for the prototype of scholarship. He does this as a sop to his conscience so that he may say: "I will none of it." But the general student body is not deceived. The "grind" is recognized for what he is. So too is the student who, while maintaining his high scholarship, gives part of himself to his fellows in active leadership. No honor is thought too great...
...England, flour has been marked up in price four times in a single week. A sack of flour now costs $3.25 more than before the rise in wheat started. Roughly every 75? advance on the flour sack means a penny more for a loaf of bread. Already the four-pound loaf has jumped from 16? to 19?. First and last, it is estimated that the present increase in British bread will call for the payment by England of about $90,000,000 to foreign wheat-exporting countries...
...back to town from the quiet of Vermont hills is trial enough, without writing about town authors. Therefore, I am choosing one of the Vermont group with which to reopen my column after an ever-so-slight vacation. Sara Cleghorn has been lecturing at the School of English, Bread Loaf Inn, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. She is poet, novelist, essayist. Those of you who read The Atlantic Monthly know her work well. I had always heard of her as one of the group of writers who live near or in Manchester, Vt.?a friend of Dorothy Canfield Fisher...