Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very good to know that contemporary to oneself, in the midst of all that may seem mediocre and so much but mere dross, there is at least one great spirit, living and suffering, pondering and creating. In Jacob Wassermann there can be seen a great master in the very process of development. Each new book discovers him with a firmer grasp of the technique of his craft, with clearer vision of moral truth. Paradoxically, although it is not as great a book, "Wedlock" is a distinct improvement upon the "World's Illusion...
...Tufts Student Council, with the active cooperation of President Cousens, has embarked on a venture which is at once indicative of the awakening undergraduate interest in the educational process and also of the spreading recognition of the value of that interest among professional educators...
...education. The fallacy here is obvious. It is equally so, however, in the larger question of whether the student should express his opinion at all, regardless of his academic qualifications to an opinion. For education is something apart from mere erudition, or age, or title. It is a process. And if anyone is qualified to appraise and value that process it is the person most intimately involved...
Among the business discussed was the question of the relation of the various Graduate Schools to the Fund, as well as that of the classes which are engaged in the process of raising their Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Gifts to the University. Under the present plan, the only appeal to the Graduate School alumni is made through the general literature sent out by the Council and through notices and articles in the Bulletin. This far there has been no attempt to solicit funds from those men through agents appointed for the purpose...
Last week began the long-winded process of arranging a fight for the contemporary strongboy James J. ("Gene") Tunney. The champion, returning from a camp in Maine, gave an interview on literature to a reporter in the train and stated that he had spent his last evening in camp reading Richard III. In Manhattan, one Humbert J. Fugazy approached him with an offer to fight "the outstanding heavyweight contender" (Jack Delaney or possibly Jack Sharkey) at the Polo Grounds, Tunney to receive 37½% of an estimated $1,500,000 gate...