Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Concerning THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder, (Albert and Charles Boni, New York, 1928. $2.50), it has all been said so well not to say often. One hundred and thirty thousand in four months, eleven thousand sold in England, hailed by a professor of English in the University of Alabama as a classic, not equalled since "Ethan Frome' and 'Jurgen,'" talked of, written about, sometimes read. The price of the first editions has already jumped to $20 thanks to the efforts of Messrs. Phelps and Hansen, Mr. Wilder, we learn, is still holding down his academic post...
...college life has sent such a terrific avalanche of courses and activities down upon the normal student that he can only fight blindly ahead and trust to get through the best way he can. As long as chaos is the prevalent factor in educational circles it is safe to say that the student will be the victim. Along with the great mass of experiments tried upon him the average student would appreciate a simplification of education. Until he ceases to be dumbfounded by the intricacies of the paths he is expected to tread and can be shown the objective...
...York Legislature while Smith was governor, and it is the Legislature that votes appropriation bills. There is a curious game played in New York which consists of the Republican Legislature spending the money and then denouncing Smith as a waster. On the other hand, it is fair to say that Smith's theory of government requires the expenditure of more than an average sum for such purposes as the up-keep of State hospitals and the modernization of prisons, and that in this sense he is a spender rather than a saver...
Thurgood Marshall, the first negative speaker, introduced the definition of "intermixing" as "intimate and indiscriminate association." Such intermixing produces descendants neither colored nor white, frequently ostracized by both, he went on to say. "The family unit is destroyed, and all genuine society suffers. All intermixing in times of slavery was illegal intermixing. Perhaps some one in the audience would make this legal. But did Prohibition purge John Barleycorn...
...Hubbard '30 stated that the affirmative side was not advocating inter- marriage, but that it did declare that any legal prohibition against intermarriage should be removed. "They say that Cupid is blind, very probably color-blind." He advocated social intermixing as broadening our civilization...