Word: paragraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late Hammond Lamont greatest of all modern editorial writers I think--who urged unceasingly the bearing aloft of "the flaming torch of journalism". It should be borne in the domain of sport as elsewhere. As the writer has said in a foregoing paragraph, there are a few-a small minority--who have received inspiration from their new relations with those who conduct and participate in amateur sport, who have developed a sense of dignity and of responsibility, who have come to a conception of the root significance of the amateur game. But such as these are not a little mystified...
...friendliness from "the touching picture of a dying fox surrounded by stiff-looking hounds." One may find pathos in the scene and an engendered sympathy for the fox within himself, but the stiffness of the hounds denies any friendliness. One wishes this picture had been introduced in the next paragraph in which we are told "Old prints and framed manuscripts on the walls invited scrutiny...
...later paragraph Professor Donham explained his suggestion more in detail. "The personal problems of adjustment in business should have constant individual attention, but they should also be covered by organized instruction and group conferences, so that the less aggressive man who needs help most shall get it. In this work there should be considered such topics as dress, deportment approach, and the use of spoken and written English. Shall the graduate go to a small town or a large town? Shall he try to build up his own business, or work for a big corporation or for a small...
...this issue of the magazine there occurs but a single book review, that of Sinclair Lewis's "Main Street;" and it is decidedly gratifying to find the review of some length and discrimination. One such careful and comprehensive, is preferable to a dozen little paragraphs on as many books, each paragraph being no more than a mere bird-peck at the subject...
There appeared in your paper today an editorial on the subject of introductory courses which, however, from the turn of the last paragraph seems to the reader to have been intended purely as a criticism of one course, namely Fine Arts 1c. How such a thing was ever allowed to be printed I do not know, for besides lacking truth it shows a total lack of sane judgment and also of any ideas of etiquette or of the fitness of a subject for an editorial. I am thoroughly in accord with the thought expressed in the first paragraph...