Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decide to ride through the streets of old Georgetown, and you are astounded at the change in appearance. You note handsome old houses, through which you can walk on the payment of a small sum. You note the narrow streets, the slower pace, the rusty iron gates, the old warehouses on the river-front. You journey out Conduit Road along the old canal, and you are haunted with the scenes of your history books. If you're an extrovert you may think of what the Industrial Revolution really meant...
...retrace your steps and cross over into the Old Dominion, you will immediately note the squalor and poor-ness of the land. And, if you are a "nice, bright young man," you will realize what slavery meant to the South, and what the North's victory meant. You are astounded to find yourself sympathizing with the South, and thinking of Karl Marx's phrase, "the expropriation of the expropriators...
...President's smile broadened. "I am sending," said he, "a note to Senator Robinson thanking him for the very able and very honorable fight he conducted with others for the World Court...
...Modern Art was proud to give a great retrospective show to the work of George Caleb Bingham (1811-79). Critics fell over themselves with such phrases as "a modern Delacroix," "last of the Renaissance tradition," "rival of David and Ingres." Only cautious bang-haired Royal Cortissoz sounded a note of doubt in the general acclaim for George Caleb Bingham: "There is no distinction of style about his work. He was a mildly competent, mildly interesting practitioner, whose local legend may well be revived as a matter of pious courtesy...
Upper class men have tutors whose province it is to advise them on such matters. By contrast, Freshmen have to depend for their information as to the actual material covered in a course on two sources, neither of which is note-worthy for infallible accuracy. The first source is the Freshmen advisers, public-spirited but much harassed guardians of infant university members. They have come in for their share of criticism already--not always deservedly--and in this instance they cannot be held responsible for a minute knowledge of some one-hundred odd course syllabi. The other source of knowledge...