Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this is all admirable; it is the comment of an intelligent mind, and above all it displays a typically Gallic politeness toward those whose day of conquest is generally considered past; but when the savant undertakes to award prizes to those writers who mention heroines of notably advanced ages, he may fairly be suspected of harboring somewhere in the depths of his soul a sour-grapes complex, Balzac, for example, receives the Prix d'Excellence for six heroines adored anywhere between forty and forty-seven, and for one beloved at fifty-five. Any author who has a candidate over thirty...
...rarely does that she is forced to rely, on the alternative attractions of intellect and understanding. Moreover, the writers of popular songs whose favorite theme is going home to Mother are legion; and certainly America's own Montague Glass would be awarded at the very least an Honorable Mention for "our Miss Cohen", who, it will be remembered, was "a perfect thirty...
...there is the scientific symposium. "Symposium" is obviously a misnomer. No one drinks at the Union or enters unconventionally into the discussions with a clink of glasses and a Germanic "Hoch!" Such men as Raleigh and the Virginia planters have put an end to that-- not to mention men more notorious. The clear air of discussion is now clouded with thin blue smoke, so that such gatherings as that to be held tonight should be more aptly termed "smokosiums", and may the best man smoke the others...
...baseball campaign. He informed his listeners that five or six very promising candidates had gone on probation at mid-years and emphasized the fact that the first baseball battle was with the April hour examinations. In conversation with newspapermen after the meeting Mr. Campbell argued that public mention of the scholastic difficulties of athletes might spur them on to more serious study. He was aware, he said, of the practice of quieting reports of men being barred from competition because of classroom deficiencies, but he was of the opinion that those whose downfall was due to their own lack...
Whether or not anything comes of the suggestion, its more proposal is significant in that it gives voice to a widespread discontent with the present mechanical, mass production system. Professor Taylor's college is not the ideal. He does not, for instance, mention such vital necessities as the elimination of hour examinations, in fact of any examinations of the present type; nor of disciplinary measures such as that relic of school days, Probation, so that any student who could not do the work, or who lost interest, would simply be expected to make room for one more suitable. Perhaps, however...