Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with his material has not been gained solely in text-books and Hogarth's prints, he has tried to set down some of the more intimate aspects of the life of the day, and has succeeded to a certain extent. If the reader himself has a vivid imagination, he may put Mr. Sherwin's pictures in his mind's eye and build up out of them a fine scene of rum and riot, women and song...
...course, they should be taken down, if only to preserve a distinguished reputation, but things like that aren't done. However, as Sargent was unable to use a true fresco technique, regardless of what Mr. Potter may do, the pictures will soon decompose. Meanwhile they harmonize quite admirably with the vulgarity of the whole building. Perhaps this is what Mr. Potter meant when he said, "They have their place." John Walker...
...education of which the Bachelor's degree is the tangible evidence. But at the last those who give courses become jealous of control over the result. Is it fair to the student, or wholly in keeping with the professed idea of the divisional examination for honors, that he may lose the distinction degree earned in his field because of a failure to meet exactly some prejudice that requires a stated number of B's in courses...
Taking a page from Thackeray in the reverse, the Professor of English at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology advised the graduating class to imitate the snob, not to ridicule or despise him. Perhaps this was simply Professor Rogers's way of startling the bourgeois young engineers. Or it may be that, as he intimated, they had been so long living under the shadow of Harvard's snobbery that a little irony had to be expended upon the contrast. Yet it was with a grave appearance of sincerity that he urged the graduates to study carefully the snob in order...
...would seem that Professor Rogers should have directed his remarks not to the boys at the Massachusetts Tech, but to their parents. The latter will take a lot of converting before they consent to see their gilded youth start out on a career of extravagance and bumptiousness. It may even be the case that a purse-proud father would not be entirely happy to see his daughter become engaged to a snob of the purest water. If he had to make his choice between the two authorities, the chances are that he would prefer Thackeray to Professor Rogers. --New York...