Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...develops that the President and faculty are not responsible to the students, the parents of students, the public, the benefactors, the alumni, the Church, the trustees, the State. They cannot be responsible to themselves. To whom, then, are they responsible? " There are, I think, two relationships in which the scholar feels and acknowledges responsibility. The first and lesser of these is the relation to other teachers and scholars, to other seekers after truth. The second and greater responsibility is that which ' we' feel and acknowledge toward the truth itself...
When he has seen them all, the Scholar emerges into Broadway and plods desperately to the adjacent saloon. Bending wearily over his beer for hours he thinks the whole thing through...
Musing wearily on the futility of funny men, the Scholar drags himself to Broadway to inspect the latest models in professional hilarity. He takes his post in the Winter Garden where the current Passing Show unrolls its gorgeous length. The screaming point is reached when one Roy Cummin gs, in the manner of a concert tenor, walks slowly from the wings, heaving with the impending agony of solemn singing. He opens his mouth for the first rush of song?and falls on his face. The audience dissolves in tears of frantic delight...
...Scholar attends the Follies, the Vanities and the Music Box. On every stage he finds comedians prostrate on their faces...
...plight of the Scholar...