Word: myths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accident which leaves him blind. When she goes to see him in a hospital, she is arrested. In the final scene she marches out in a sweeping black robe in the center of the firing squad leaving her unwitting fiance behind; an ending that is perhaps tactful since myth has it that Mata Hari tore off her clothes, a diplomatic habit of her's, at the last moment...
About the person of Thomas Carlyle there has grown up the convenient myth that for him life was an eternal stomach-ache. This theory was put forward by literary critics to explain the epithetical bombast that he was pleased to call his literary style. This pleasant theory has since been taken up as a vestment of culture by intellectually striving debutantes whose only recollection of "Past and Present" is that it might have been a Vincent Club show of ten years ago. There is something rather dashing and knowing in the statement, "Oh Carlyle-a chronic dyspeptic," particularly if said...
Football's great myth is the National Championship, to which, last week, Tulane, only major team in the U. S. which has won all its games, seemed to have the best claim. The National Championship, however, was invented for purposes of argument. The flaw in Tulane's claim was a schedule which included no intersectional games. By beating Northwestern, generally acknowledged champion of the Big Ten, Purdue last week became a member of the group of claimants. Southern California, though beaten once, in early season, by St. Mary's, had the strongest record on the Pacific Coast...
Thus a pair of skis came to be associated with the popular idea of the "Dartmouth type" who was supposed to be traditionally dressed in corduroy trousers and a dirty sweat-shirt. But until recently those skis were more or less of a myth. Strange as it may seem to those brought up on the Dartmouth outdoor tradition, hundreds of men graduated from the college without knowing a telemark from a gelandesprung. Skiing was left to a comparatively small group of outdoor enthusiasts of the dyed-in-the-wool sort...
...Professor Ballantine's Music 4c, Beethoven, in the Music Building. Professor Ballantine, piano; Malcolm Holmes, violin; and R. U. Jameson, 'cello, will collaborate in a repetition of the trio, Opus 1, number 3, which they performed at Dunster House last night. The Vagabond never did believe in the myth of the Moonlight Sonata and the more he hears of Beethoven the more far-fetched such tales seem to him. Beethoven was too great to think of pictorial music. He wrote of the effect externals have on the singing soul and the trio Music 4c will hear today has over been...