Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...limited experience both as student and teacher in other educational Institutions outside our own leads me to the suspicion that many of our smaller colleges have ceased to do any serious work in Greek, and some of the universities perforce by reason of the poor preparation of their students have degenerated into one sort or other of parlor-Greek. It is refreshing to me to be at Harvard once again, where for a student of Greek a thorough knowledge of the language is not an otiose desirability, but a necessity. Very sincerely yours, Arthur M. Young...
...comparing the curricula of the various colleges in respect to the amount of space occupied by the ancient languages, it is very difficult to reach an exact conclusion. The reason for this is that whereas two courses, may be labelled, say, "Athenian Tragedy," one of them may take up twelve plays and another six: or of two courses in Roman Satire one, may include about twice as much as the other. Therefore, when one discovers that Princeton has 12 courses in Greek, Dartmouth 10, Yale 9, Cornell 8, Columbia 7, Williams 6, and Harvard 5, it is hard to draw...
Industry. Although a vast amount of capital has been expended on Russian industry by the government, it remains the most serious problem that the Soviet is facing. The basic reason for this is that, with its bureaucratic control, its restricted markets, and its general inefficiency, Russian industry is not able to turn out goods cheap enough to appeal to the peasantry, its logical customer...
Nightstick. Again the underworld wars with the police; and again the police get both their man and the girl. In a misguided moment this young woman marries a killer, who kills enough people to give Detective Thomas Glennon reason to undertake his extermination. The fact that Mr. Glennon also loves the lady adds impetus. Out of all this grows another of the violent melodramas with which every theatrical season teems. But there is the favorable novelty that Nightstick is vividly acted, shamelessly incredible, and eminently exciting from the disordered, menacing beginning to the inevitably honeyed...
...Lampoon is ever read till its pictures are exhausted. The poem about the goldfish belonging to the old lady of "singularly wanton frame of mind" is evidently the work of a writer who can do still better. The ballad of the Rotunda pleases by reason of the popuarity of its subject, but no traffic sergeant in Cambridge, Mass., says "wolking" or "goil"--never...