Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...encroachment. Far more ultimate good is to be had from the self-teaching and individual assertion of free leaders than from the more systematic attention to detail possible under the long arm of the faculty. When undergraduate athletics become too large a responsibility for undergraduate direction it would seem wiser frankly to admit this and to accept graduate management. Let the student leader touch only that task which he can reach with his own hands...
This extension of paternalism at Lafayette may seem but slight; its significance lies in its marked agreement with a policy already casting its shadow over American college life. Whether it be the banning of automobiles for university students, the appointment of athletic captains and managers by coaches, the censoring of the student press, or just the classroom training of extra-curricular leaders, the effect is the same, a blow at self-reliance...
...Geddes' vitality and versatility seem sufficient to permeate even so vast a project as Chicago's. He is donating his services and he contemplates the work with a festal excitement which no salary could induce. Architects and designers enjoy world's fairs as spectacular outlets for their creative urge, and this time Chicago will not tolerate a stale display of plaster-of-paris Classicism, bad Byzantine and garbled Gothic. The architecture will be 20th Century in spirit and detail...
...finds its archetype in the "who-was-the-greatest-poet-Momma" sort of query ripens remarkably under the influence of Lux et Veritas,. The announcement today of the Senior questionnaire bears promise of a bumper crop of Yale superlatives. "Greatest social celebrity", "Most entertaining", "Best looking", and "best dressed" seem to flourish particularly well in the warm climate farther south, and bring home to those in Cambridge the difficulty of cultivating the same sort of thing under the exigencies of local conditions. Nothing but the most artificially regulated amosphere can develop analogous products within a radius of ten miles from...
...Haven is to be found in the confidence with which the Seniors attack such problems as "which living man do you admire most?" But here there develops a weakness in the works, for though the majority comes out stoutly for Lindy or the great American home, four Seniors seem still hopelessly introverted at the end of a college course spent solely with studying their fellow...