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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collegians are likely to consider that the matter of their personal fitness is not worth much thought, inasmuch as the question is neither pressing nor easy to solve. College is usually regarded as a matter of course,--to be taken or discarded on its objective merits. It is a rare thing when unsuitability and failure are judged in advance, and it would appear doubtful if any of those who have found themselves unsuited to a college education ever suspected that they would so find it until they had learned by experience. Obviously Dr. Faunce seeks to awaken saving suspicions...
...This is a disease which develops very slowly, coming to maturity in middle life, and characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur. To the persecution type belong persons such as Miss Gibson who are driven by fear and hate to attack their imaginary persecutors. The grandeur type develops, in rare instances, into such "supermen" of genius, energy, and egotism as Napoleon (now generally considered a paranoiac). This opinion is not shocking if it be recalled that science no longer conceives of two classes of persons: the "sane" and the "insane." The "sane" are simply that large, vague mass of humanity...
...after evening of inimitable entertainment? Pelleas and Melisande, played, acted and sung as never before; Cesar Franck's "Variations Symphoniques" executed by masterly Alfred Cortot; the Dresden Opera Company tilting friendliwise to excel their French friends. . . . It was a love feast as well as a music fest. And between rare performances the delegates might wander, as tourists may for weeks to come, among exhibits ranging from furniture polish to autographed manuscripts of Mozart's Magic Flute and Beethoven's "Seventh Symphony...
...Vagabond subsists, in the eyes of the world at least, on the food of the intellect. But, all unknown though it may be to his many followers, he is often forced to wander far afield in pursuit of that rare morsel which can please so fastidious a taste as he secretly prides himself on. Boston, as the nearest, the most obvious, territory for the despairing epicure, is the usual scene of these veiled expeditions. Last night the Vagabond set out in search of those delicacies indigenous to the joy, the lightness of spring. Weeks of rain and lowering skies...
...Each sentence is placed deftly, accurately; each paragraph is an exquisitely tooled bit. And like another woman writer, Willa Cather, she possesses a refreshing air of calm and quiet. When one reads her it is with a sense that the book is a treat; that it is of a rare vintage, not often obtainable...