Word: saxon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because their vocabularies are so limited that they have no other means of expression". After all, this reflection on one's vocabulary is only a sly shot at the college author fair target but there are certainly occasions, which Dr. Fitch neglects, on which anything but solid, sturdy. Anglo-Saxon profanity would be inappropriate and since these occasions are by no means rare in college days, proficiency in the art should be a point of pride. It is a poor compliment to the college man that his best awarding should be likened to the rude, uneducated and really embryonic curses...
...English Department, several marked changes are included in the new provisional elective pamphlet for next year. These revisions include the abolition of "snap", composition courses and the alteration of the instruction in English literature so that there will be a course to cover every period from Anglo-Saxon times up to the present...
...other important point in the new system is the chronological arrangement in which the literature courses are to be arranged, instead of the haphazard potpourri which they represent at present. By guaranteeing that no important period of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the present will be neglected, the faculty of the department makes possible a much more nearly perfect grasp of the development of literature, and incidentally guides the student toward the natural preparation for English divisionals. If this same system could be carried over to other departments, notably that of History, another perceptible advance would be achieved...
...this active propaganda, Italy has taken her cue from Spain, where King Alfonso announced his intention of promoting Latin influence in South America. Latinism is in the field to compete with Anglo-Saxon commerce and culture. On the whole, the effort is one to be thankful for. The competition will rouse the business men of America to new activity. It will probably tend to make the American and the English the "Angle-Saxon" elements combine. And after all, it simply proves the value of American business methods...
...style, and, at his unpleasantest, some times, a singularly moving power, as in I Want to Know Why, Brothers and many of the Wineburg, Ohio sketches. But it is inchoate, stumbling, strange; and art, after all, must, I fancy, be more clear-cut than this, must be, in Anglo-Saxon literature at least, most carefully cerebrated. We cannot indulge in such splaying of the emotions...