Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fable play." He might better have called it a "fabulous entertainment." If one goes in glum seriousness to see a play, if one wants to imbibe the practical philosophy of a deep thinker, if one wants anything else but to hear well-spiced dialogue for its own sake or for the sake of the whims of its author, "Androcles and the Lion" is the wrong thing to see. For every human person with the least hint of an eclectic taste, it cannot help but form part of an unforgettable evening in his theatrical experience...
...poems and stories that make up the first number of the Advocate have been slumbering since last winter in the editor's drawer. Perhaps the authors have purposely repressed their personal feelings and opinions and aspirations and have written in a detached spirit of "Art for Art's Sake". Yet one is tempted to assume that these are the latest products of the writers pens, and to seek in them evidences of the thoughts and activities and experiences of a busy summer holiday. What have the editors seen, what have they learned, what have they felt, since their release from...
Under this title an article in the current number of the "Atlantic Monthly" voices a strong protest against the elective system which is now so familiar to us. "Universities were invented," says the author of this article, "for the sake of bringing their fortunate students into contact with the precious lore of the world, there garnered and kept pure." Nowadays, "if a boy does not feel a pre-established harmony between his soul and the humanities, then give him an academic degree on something with which his soul will be in pre-established harmony. And if there...
...losing. In Continental universities this energy would rather go into a turbulence for causes and ideas, a militant radicalism or even or more militant conservatism that would send Paris students out into the streets with a Call-laux as-sas-sin! 'or tie up an Italian town for the sake of Italia Irredenta. Even the war, though it has called out a fund of antimilitarist sentiment in the American colleges, still tends to be spoken of in terms of an international sporting event. "Who will win? "is the question here...
...fact, which was brought out two years ago by an investigation of the amount of work done by students of various grades, that there is a "C man," something can also be said in favor of the man who is active in other legitimate fields. Scholarship for its own sake will always be followed only...