Word: microcosmic
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...microcosm of university life is made most amusing--and yet that is not the word; the inferiority and superiority complexes, the megalaphobias that are so much a part of the inhabitants of this little world that they cannot themselves see them, are painted with clear strokes. Is this a life of reason? Ah, no; it is a world where "nothing is ever done until everyone is convinced that it ought to be done, and has been convinced for so long that it is now time to do something else...
...this microcosm there are five parties; two that dwell in the valley of indecision, one that is guided by a principle, which is a rule of inaction, another that knows what it wants and gets it--all the money there is going--, and a last party that is afflicted by a conscience. And of course these parties hold caucuses, which you want to get into if you are outside and which you want to get out of if you are inside; wherein it is not so very different from some things we have heard about in our own Cambridge...
...compositions should be ascribed to the general literary attitude of the day rather than to any individual defects of the authors. The contents of this issue of the Advocate demonstrate once again that a circle of writers in a university is almost bound to be only a microcosm of the larger contemporary world of letters...
...less smoking and pool-playing, and less purchasing of reading matter as well. The returns are from the Harvard Union, and they may simply be taken to indicate a decline in the patronage of that large and democratic social organization. But the Union is representative of the undergraduate microcosm. Life in the larger world is more serious than it was before August, 1914. "The cigarette," wrote George Frederick Watts, "is the handmaid of idleness," and the diminishing consumption of cigarettes may mean that Harvard less faithfully answers the often quoted definition of the visiting Chinese savant who wrote, "They have...
...Chinese Students' Club. Here are the records of honors and academic distinctions, the lists of club members, the athletic records. A glance at the index (a very full and careful one) shows a broadening variety of clubs, societies, fraternities, associations, conferences. This University of ours is a cosmopolitan microcosm, in which every sort of interest has its representation and every kind of person will find congenial associates. The Register is a pathfinder...