Word: panacea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...service in three of the four halls, and a cafeteria-grill in the fourth, is the suggestion of A.H. Harlow Jr, '29, in the following essay, which won the third prize in the recent Crimson essay contest. Capable management, under a non-University direction, if necessary, is declared a panacea for most of the present dietetic ills...
...true but few will boast of it Whether or not Dr. Park is over-emphasizing a contemporary disease, it is difficult to say. Certainly, in spite of their flippancy, his remarks cut deep, emanating as they do from a man vitally connected with modern education. As for his suggested panacea--if it were applicable it would probably prove efficient; but he demands such devastating frankness from sinners that the plan appears more theoretical than practical...
...note that at the end of your editorial it is alleged that "neither the author of 'The Plastic Age' nor a writer for 'Liberty' can produce the panacea" and that "the duty of those who have education on their minds as well as their hearts is to find a method by which the doctorate may be in the truest sense humanized". Such a conjunction of claims would imply that neither Mr. Marks nor myself has the slightest interest in the humanization of the doctorate requirements, and what is more, that the idea of such humanization has never occurred to either...
...their hearts is to find a method by which the doctorate may be in the truest sense humanized. Such humanization, like all else of a remedial nature, must, however, come from within. Neither the author of "The Plastic Age" nor a writer for "Liberty" can produce the panacea. They have not the background, dull and dry though it most certainly...
Whether Columbus journeyed to an unexpected discovery of the archipelago, hitherto undeveloped by Florida "realtors" with the express purpose of proving that gesture is essential to after dinner speaking--the egg trick--or merely because his instinct for reformation, change, decided his eventual research for some panacea for the less pleasing odors of Europe--will never be known--for it remains difficult to psycho-analyze the dead. At all events, he came, he saw--and conquered the emotions of future generations to the extent of rendering unto Harvard a holiday in the month of October...