Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this is intelligible enough, and entertaining. The other characters are knowable and their actions follow human motives, displayed for their own sake. Yet there is a topsy-turvy something in the play, a hinting at hidden meanings, which sets the key awry. What are the innuendoes of symbolism that seem to creep in, unexplained, from time to time? What lies lurking in the back of the author's mind, that he is unwilling to let us see? Is it merely the sense of a partness that "He" feels, the intangibility of the world and of his fellows, or is there...
...well-coated pill of conventional morality. Then by dextrous sleight of hand the reform play became a potential tragedy, the theme of which was, "Mind your own business"; the calomel was changed for quinine. And at the last, of course, was dragged in the inevitable happy ending, for the sake of the sugar. A surprise play it was, in other words, with the plausible cleverly substituted for the logical at each turning point. A psychological study it was, too, of not inconsiderable power...
...other hand, it is not the classes in question, but only the principle of preserving the inflexible rule that all undergraduates must attend their first college exercise after a vacation, then an exception in favor of the soccer team seems reasonable. A law kept merely for its own sake is unfortunate. In this case the spirit may be maintained intact, although the letter is changed. At any rate, the present compromise satisfies no one and means that the soccer team must spend fourteen extra hours on the train...
That this rapid rise in popularity is no mere passing whim but a genuine attachment to rowing for its own sake may be gathered by a comparative record of the last few seasons. In the autumn of 1920 there were 247 men out for crew; in 1921 the size of the squad jumped to 319; while this fall marked a new record when a total of 540 candidates for University, Freshman, and Graduate rowing reported for work on the river. The sweep oarsmen from this group are divided into 37 different eights, while there is an average of 70 single...
...will--and was as inevitable, in some form or other, as the mediaeval Black Death or the modern poison gas. A spirit that is professedly superficial and light-headed must perforce give birth to its literary parallel; and F. S. F., with his creed of excitement for excitement's sake, is the outcome...