Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Euripides with side splitting and enraging effectiveness. Cervantes' Don Quixote is sheer parody. In our own language we have a great volume of comic imitation. Shakespeare parodied and was parodied. Milton's ponderous solemnity was the subject of endless ribald travesty in his own momentous metre. Shelley did not shame to lampoon dear old Wordsworth...
...best a temporary relief from the rigor of correct expression, but in a college of liberal arts its continued use is pitifully futile. Profanity is neither more nor less than absence of self-control, and in a community of supposedly maturing men such immaturity is really a matter of shame...
...state of affairs when Freshmen just starting out upon "the shortest, gladdest years of life" so lose their sense of perspective that they see only shame and dishonor to this "great institution of learning" in one of its gladdest phases, a phase that is also its oldest tradition...
...however great it was. Over the wretched ones who have had their first drunken debauch we can no longer be mirthful; we must show them that such is not the stuff of which true life is made. We must remind the erring that folly in a Freshman leads to shame in a grown man, and looseness among its students brings a great, noble university into ill repute. FESSENDEN A. NICHOLS...
...remember that the story is not actually new. It is effective from an emotional standpoint, and not by any means bad prose. For description, Mr. Cleaves' account of a bull fight is vivid, and effective. For sheer nonsense, "Hicks the Half Back" is undeniably funny, and the reader laughs shame-facedly in spite of his conviction that the article is rather beneath his notice. And the naive way in which the story stops when the writer's well of humour goes dry is not the worst thing about...