Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Paternalism is the prime fault that Europeans criticize in American universities. The administration has its finger in every student pie, as the foreigner sees it. The tendency has been for the authorities to make the path too well defined; the modern idea is to give the individual more and more freedom, to place the student more on his own responsibility, and to cut down the "you must" attitude. The "News", in one of its editorials favoring the adoption of the resolutions, takes the same position on compulsory chapel that is recognized hare. "The purpose of a church service...
...correct. Unfortunately this view and the habit of trying to force everyone to "do what the crowd does", has been the means of crushing many an extraordinary personality when it was in the formative stage. Shelley's classmates did their best to force his queerness into the average path, but fortunately for posterity, his will was he stronger and they were unsuccessful. The normal while often more desirable than the abnormal is not always the best rut to travel. Smothering the individual, making him subject to the caprices of the majority, is the trend hazing takes; the "queer", but possibly...
...form of rain. But although experiments have been carried on for more than a year and a half, they have never achieved complete success until five days ago. At that time onlookers might have heard an aeroplane pass far above their heads, seen the air grow clear in its path, and feel drops of rain fall on their outstretched hands. The phenomenon was described as "absolutely uncanny" one which would have appeared miraculous to a man unaware of its cause...
...with white cloth appears between the back wall of the stoop and the house. A large window in the back wall of the stoop reveals a grape-vine trellis in the yard, with the Catskills beyond. A broad open door at right and back of the room shows a path leading off to the right. The right hand wall is broken by a short broad window upon the lowered shutter of which the farmer's wife suns her milk palls. Through this window appears the stone wall of a kitchen house. Under the window is a long bench...
...path has not been an easy one, for that of a precedent-maker never is. It has fought against the traditional conservatism of the college undergraduate and alumnus, until it has finally dethroned Polly-Wolly-Doodle and set up Mendelssohn instead. And voices which at first objected that the new Glee Club was not a Glee Club but only a Choral Society are heard no more--evidence enough that the Club's policy has won popular as well as critical favor. Public opinion has been "educated...