Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THIS is a skeptic age--and such periods have never been conducive to poetry, at least of an epic scale. One can readily see how mediocre verse fits in with the skeptic's view of things--it gives him cause to crab at the age's low level--and how their mutual dependency makes them thrive under such consoling companionship. At the same time, but perhaps not so patently, one may see how great poetry must be irritating to the skeptic. But it certainly consoles those with a larger and deeper philosophy of life. One feels as the one ought...
Hollis at 8.20--"Draoula." Go on a bat and see the vampires...
Died. Agnes Hart Wilson, 42, Democratic nominee for Congress from Pennsylvania, after an operation; in Blossburg, Pa. (see...
...some strange way, grow to know something more about Milwaukee or St. Paul. They would perhaps laugh at Aristophanes instead of shouting his silliest lines to a football team; Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus might teach them something about how men may be forlorn and heroes. They, like Herodotus, would see the eternal and astounding spectacle of a fantastic king marching an army through wild mountains by the sea; later, they would hear of the careless youth of Athens who "had never tasted war." Some would imitate not Oscar Wilde but Alcibiades who sliced the noses off of the gods before...
Asked to designate the striking differences between the two colleges in general atmosphere," he replied, "Oxford is much more leisurely--if we are going to a class we start early so that we can walk slowly and converse enroute. One never sees students bustling around to a lecture with only a few minutes left in which to arrive there. Your Yard is often deserted but one may always see men strolling leisurely around our campus smoking and talking. There seems to be more of a spirit of comraderie...