Word: pabulum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When recent graduates of American colleges begin to apply the cold, clear light of reason to educational problems, deserting fictional pabulum for genuine analysis, the future assumes a brighter aspect. A few are heading towards this end, a stalwart valiant few. In the May Forum Edward C. Aswell offers his theory for what is known as the suicide wave among students. He begins by pointing out that as a wave the number of deaths amounts to no more than the annual tide which has always swept in from the uncharted seas of adolescence, bringing disaster in its wake. Nevertheless, objects...
...rocking-chairs squeak out a dissonant and complaining chorus, thin-lipped ladies swell like croaking frogs into the temporary importance of unofficial news-mongers. Over bored back fences, down dumbwaiter pits, gossiping voices shrill. In cities, the churning presses of newspapers join the rocking-chair chorus, give the daily pabulum of gossip, dignified in print, to stenographer and businessman. Shanghai may fall, Prohibition flounder; the names of "Peaches," Chaplin, Rhinelander still strike responsive chords...
...reply to the Advocate's charge of a paternalistic censorship by the Widener authorities, it is startling to find Mr. Lane, the librarian, calmly admitting the present censorship and arguing the right, even duty, of his assistants to decide what is and what is not fit pabulum for student minds. "There are", says Mr. Lane, "filthy books, salacious books, books corrupting in influence, which it is no part of the Library's duty to distribute to readers." Thus he lays claim to the right of censorship, to the right to deck Boccaccio and Ellis with fig leaves...
...pose of satisfying their view of what a newspaper should be-an educated man's paper, liberal, refined, in good taste. Mr. Curtis changed the Post into what he thought a paper should be-a paper for news, a go-getter for circulation, the kind of intellectual pabulum that could attract a large audience. In making the change he immediately lost Christopher Morley, that most genial of columnists. In general, how ever, he did not destroy the paper of the bygone intellectual giants, because it was no longer their paper. The Post had passed their high-water-mark...
Paternalism is the pabulum which the 1925 board craves. It counsels the university to constitute its monitors unofficial detectives and assist the Federal Government in enforcing the law. It stands for compulsory chapel. It urges Yale to continue as the "producer of gentlemen in the highest sense." It demands limitation of numbers...