Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nation" throws Barnard's hat into the ring; claiming that the recent action of the Student Council there, taking a stand against faculty censorship, proves "the truth of the remark that women's colleges are about the most intellectual spots in the United States." Frankly, we consider this an unnecessary dig at male conceit; even if the women's colleges are above the intellectual Parnassus on which men's colleges serenely squat, what of it? It can probably be said of them as, it was of Shelley that they have both feet and heads in the clouds; which...
Professor Perry then spoke of Whitman's book of poems, "Leaves of Grass". In this work, he sought, "a new and national declamatory expression". This remark has been frequently quoted by those who claim Whitman is not a poet at all. "He wrote under the influence of powerful emotion, and his work suffers from this. He has tried to put his country as a whole into the pages of "Leaves of Grass". Whether he succeeded or not has been much disputed...
...interesting tendency in the number as a whole is the subordination of narrative. Until a short time ago, all college papers used to serve a regular repast of warmed over O. Henry, composed, at first largely, and at last entirely, of the condiment of Surprise. It is pleasant to remark that the influence of this absurd literary mountebank has finally waned, if not vanished. The two stories in the present Advocate, which I take as typical, are transitional; the old short-story formula is gone; the new is still in the making. Both pieces of work suffer from this lack...
...they are doing is able to stand on its own merits Sincere, thoughtful acting, simple and suggestive settings, intelligent productions, should make their little theatre on Charles street a Mecca for all who are hopeful for the drama. After all, what are costly costumes worth, when the audience will remark, as someone did t the "Passion Flower". "Good Heavens, does he need such a wide sash to hold up his trousers...
...these "Rays of Moonshine", and there is no less frequent cause for unrestrained laughter. The book as a whole is peculiarly satisfying. Its contents are imbued with that understanding of the eternal child lurking in every man of any sensitiveness--that understanding which drew from Carlyle the penetrating remark, "Laughter means sympathy". Such laughter Mr. Herbert awakens, such sympathy--sympathy with the human being so situated or so concerned as the various articles depict, a being at times strangely like oneself. This kind of humor is found in several of Mr. Herbert's contemporaries and compatriots; notably Hilaire Belloc...