Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Democratization of the language of Sam'l Johnson and Matthew Arnold along the line of popular usage is at best an unwelcome choice of the easiest path. There is some question whether this National Council, headed by Miss Center, is the best arbiter of usage; Miss Center herself unwittingly exposes an ignorance of the etymology of English by branding the phrase "go slow" as traditionally ungrammatical. As for "integrating and directing," even those who dwell in cloistered academic security are able to say that English teachers would have their time pretty well occupied if they attempted to remove the more...
...conference seem to be, it is only fair to make an estimate if the nature and amount of influence that the university graduate can exert. Knowledge of facts, although it is the basis if college instruction, has, despite all pragmatic objections a purely intrinsic value. It is path or the lesson of tolerance and the ideas of his own generation which the college graduate has absorbed that can have any social effect. This is the idea of Kotsching when he speaks of youth "yearning after a now conception of the world, a Weltanshauung which will give a new point...
...Benjamin Rand in Saturday's CRIMSON writes ". . . lost we forget, these who have been splendid in service and sublime in suffering." Eulogizing the dead and the living soldier, praising his heroic martyrdom, he hallows war. He makes it a holy step in a path of glory, threats it as the means to "peace and nobler life," actually calls those "happy who actively served in this great cause...
...named Duff teamed to get a ship news shot of the elder Morgan, notoriously hostile to cameramen. Duff hid behind a ventilator. Jack Price, as decoy, waited until Banker Morgan, pacing the deck, came alongside the ventilator. Then he leaped into Morgan's path, focussing his camera. Irate Banker Morgan brandished his cane, while Confederate Duff, unseen, sniped a perfect shot, later shared with Price...
...Somerset, Beacon Hill, and the Brattles. The trim uniforms, the electric response to crisp commands, the venerable joke about the mule, these combine to give a sense of purpose, a promise of a definite future, which makes the academic student, preparing himself for a dim and uncertain path, wonder...