Word: productions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good taste. . . . just as the playwright or the novelist must. "And as a matter of plain fact, the editor generally exercises, and should exercise, and in fact must exercise, more discrimination than the novelist or the playwright, because he has a larger and more varied audience; and because his product goes into the home, and to all members of the family. . . . "Such a great and all-pervading influence must be kept wholesome and beneficial; in fact, it must even be exercised in a way to compel literature and the drama also to be wholesome and beneficial...
...practical philosophy of life which Mr. Lowell imparted to the assembled product of Harvard College. It is summed up in his words, "We enjoy our work because we feel that it is worth doing, and it is worth doing because in some form it will endure. It has moral value that outlasts the hour when it is done and the man who does...
...mother, herself a roamer of the marshes, outlived her husband and her lover to settle down, at last, in serene resignation as mistress of the old farm. Her character is the one real character in the book and, whether, or not it is a complete character, it is the product or presumed product of enough wayward influences to render it interesting...
...wiry, serious-looking man of 32-Charles Duncan Chamberlin-a product of one of Iowa's many Main Streets, in the town of Denison. Early in life he developed a passion for tinkering with automobile engines. He studied electrical engineering at Iowa State University. He worked in a jewelry store. He married a pretty girl named Wilda Bogert. He went into aviation through the path traveled by so many young pilots-training in the Army during Wartime, barnstorming, stunt flying. Then he got a backer and a superbly designed Wright-Bellanca monoplane. He shattered the endurance record by remaining...
...greatest dangers inherent in the new balance of the college year are certainly the scholastic ones. All large American universities, however, are at present replete with the highly developed extra-curricular activities. These are to some extent the product of the present system of education, whereby one's study is controlled by the college officials. In changing the old educational system at Harvard there must follow a change in the position of ex-curricular interests...