Word: publicity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston censors are peculiar; they banned our play, and let 'Volpone', in Zweig's version of Ben Jonson's rare bit, run merrily on when the Guild presented it here last spring. I don't see that 'Strange Interlude' is as bad for public consumption as 'Volpone'. Perhaps Ben Jonson's bad taste is classic, while Eugene O'Neill's is--well, the Boston censors have their opinion, it seems...
Professor Garrod yesterday announced four public lectures, to be held in the Fogg Large Lecture Room on successive Wednesday evenings, beginning Wednesday, October 23, at 8 o'clock...
...corner of this building there will be a suite for a master, dean, or member of the faculty, who is to live with the students not as a disciplinarian, but as a companion and supervisor. It is planned to use the addition chiefly for graduate medical students and public health students...
...students of the subject will quarrel with his description of the disease. Predominant in every American college and university at present are the social activities of student life, and of these the most important, from the point of view of the public, are the athletic. Membership in the varsity football team represents the peak of undergraduate attainment, and from that the scale of values grades down through the lesser sports, through the glee and mandolin clubs, the dramatic society and the comic weekly to the bottom of scholastic excellence. Education, the nominal object of every college student, plays second fiddle...
...have used the words "public" and "popular" to designate this assortment of values for the simple reason that it does not faithfully reflect the undergraduate judgement. The undergraduate, in notable instances at least, is in open rebellion against it. He is kept in subjection only by the weight of alumni opinion...