Word: microcosms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...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...