Word: realms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...problems of humans are attacked by those who leave out of consideration the behavior of humans. It is utterly unscientific. It is trying to place in the realm of pure thought problems which have little pure thought in them. Sociology is a branch of learning not open to metaphysics, but calls as much for a careful observation of facts as a physical science...
...performed the impossible; it has made even more popular than usual that feature of every properly appointed household--the Cosmopolitan. From the delicate and tactful "take-off" on the late lamented Ella Wheeler Wilcox to the masterpiece of cartoonist art entitled "Woodruina" Lampy scores a decisive victory in the realm of humor. Of all forms of wit burlesque is perhaps the hardest to carry off. Nine times out of ten it falls flat simply because it is overdone. But the editors of the Lampoon knew when to stop, and therein lies their virtue. We understand that this number...
...conference of the college papers in New Haven on Saturday. The resolution provides a logical and fair basis upon which the athletic meeting may well work. Whatever specific arrangements are made, it is high time that an official declaration of the future athletic policy be evolved from the intangible realm of obscurity. Let there be light...
...readers are voiced in a criticism of the overdone war jokes. To prove the justice of his complaint Lampy, to the gratification of his many faithful readers, proceeds to give an idea of what he means by modern wit. Classicism may be very well in literature, but in the realm of humor, the modern commuter prefers something smacking less of Adam and the fig leaf. His efforts easily outrank former issues and vie with that masterpiece of 1918, the Graduates Number. We are told that poetry is that art dealing with the emotion through the imagination. In that case Lampy...
...more or less price-fixing during the public emergency which the country confronted, at the same time called attention to the very serious complications which were likely to follow as a result of it. Of a truth, the likelihood which he then foresaw has since been translated into the realm of actuality. We refer not alone to the many difficulties which price-fixing encountered by the way while the war was still on, but more especially to the anomalies consequent upon it, which have come into hold relief since the signature of the armistice. Boston Transcript...