Word: plato
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...series of lectures on Plato, Horace, Shakspere, Moliere, and Cervantes has been arranged to be given on successive Wednesday afternoons at 4.30 o'clock in Emerson...
...made over into a village improvement society. Here is a "bunch" of undergraduates "going in for" settlement work, teaching night schools, deeply interested in their religious societies. There is another "bunch" deep in the psychology of poker. Here is a youth burning the midnight electric light over Plato--in the Loeb Classical Library. There is "a little group of serious thinkers," hot for communism. In a few years they will be selling boots and shoes, or something equally as harmless...
...Rolland says there is no reason why a Westerner should not understand Gandhi's doctrine as well as Gandhi understands those of our great men for it should not be forgotten that this Asiatic believer has translated Ruskin, and Plato and quotes Thoreau, admires Mazzini, reads Edward Carpenter, and that he is, in short, familiar with the best that Europe and America have produced. According to M. Rolland, Gandhi's fundamental argument is against modern civilization, which he says is civilization in name only and that in reality it corresponds to what ancient Hinduism called the dark ages...
...giving this concert the Glee Club is following in the footsteps of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which has for some time given concerts at a nominal price for school children. There is far more truth than poetry in Plato's dictum that children should be stamped with good taste as soon as possible. Instead of coming down to the level of the audience with a rendition of "Barney Google," the Glee Club will put in practise the theory of educating the audience up to its level. If moving picture producers, radio story-tellers, and the raft of authors of children...
...today can be found in the greatest classics written in the English language. After all, is it not a sign of intelligence rather than the reverse to use slang? For it is a well worn platitude that the slang of today is the speech of tomorrow; even the majestic Plato used slang in his deepest philosophical works because of its freshness and vividness. One is inclined to impute the passiveness of Mount Holyoke students under this oppressive regulation to ignorance of the distinguished precedents for unstandardized speech rather than to conviction of the worthiness of the purist ideal. And even...