Word: offshoot
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...tossed their prejudices aside and trampled one another in the effort to get in. It was Negro, it was incredibly swift, it was funny, it was irresistibly musical. It gathered in its train a vast array of imitators of which just one, Runnin' Wild, preserved the tradition. A second offshoot has appeared, fresh off the same family tree and quite in character. In dissecting The Chocolate Dandies, the observer finds the comedy of Sissle and Blake typically comic, the male quartet magnificently melodious, the chorus high in aggregate activity, and the piano playing of Eubie Blake almost an evening...
WHAT THE BUTLER WINKED AT- Being the Life and Adventures of Eric Home (Butler) Written by himself- Seltzer ($3.00). An offshoot of the Young Visiters school of narrative. The artless (though at times somewhat labored) account of the supposedly autobiographical butler in service with many of the "Nobility and Gentry." These latter may quite conceivably learn with pain some of the things that go on behind the traditionally imperturbable butlerian countenance. No Admirable Crichton this, however, to transform them. Rather, he gazes upon them and philosophizes, mildly-but inwardly. Thus, of the nouveaux riches: "They may spend their money giving...
...being classed with those who are in reality inferior to him. This ridiculous and inefficient scheme was, I believe, brought forth by the conference committee, which (as a well known member of '88 very justly said) "was born sickly, and died young." Let us hope that this offshoot of its weakness, this evidence of its failure, may soon be removed...
...Where is the 'Annex'?" is a question whose frequency surprises the well-informed. That the inquirer speaks hesitatingly and adds, 'I ought to know, but I don't,' is a tribute to the unobtrusive life of this rigorous offshoot of Harvard. This ignorance as to the location of the Annex is due of course, to the fact that it has no buildings of its own, but occupies rooms in a small house on a side street. Its surroundings compare unfavorably with those enjoyed by the women students of every other eastern school of its rank. Four rooms in a private...
...vogue at Harvard. In the first place it is an attempt to transplant into Cornell soil a plant which has flourished passably well among the cultured shades of Harvard. Perhaps it might be more exact to say that it is an attempt to ingraft upon the Cornell stock an offshoot of the Harvard system. For it is noteworthy that only that portion of the Harvard system has been adopted which was made necessary at that university by circumstances having no parallel at Cornell. The marked feature of the Harvard plan is the elective system which permits a student from...