Word: shorey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Saturday at the Phi Beta Kappa meeting Mr. Paul Shorey tried modern culture and found it dull. Americans are sexually inept, poets are crude, intellectually the country is dead. As a solace from this tedious period Mr. Shorey looked not to a refreshing dawn in the future, but preferred to gaze longingly at the roseate sunset of a halycon past. Lowell, Longfellow, Holmes, and Emerson are the foundations of American culture the men to whom their countrymen must point with pride...
...unfortunate that a speech which regrets the present should suggest an analysis of the past as a palliative. Mr. Shorey was speaking to a society which popular opinion represents as the finest intellectual group at Harvard. The hope of American letters, therefore should rest with them more than with any other body. If they are to be advised to dwell within the security of the past, the aims of a Harvard education are disavowed...
...college lies not so much in what a student has learned, but in how he is equipped to utilize the knowledge he has acquired. A detailed study of the American past avails nothing, if it is not put to some constructive use in the future. All this Mr. Shorey neglected while betraying his quite natural affection for the good old days. Granting the speaker that modern culture is a barren wasteland, Phi Beta Kappa men should not be advised to eschew it for the more pleasant task of literary research. They should be urged only to insert their keys...
...platform of the theatre will sit the President of the Chapter, Justice W. C. Wait '82; the Secretary, W. G. Howard '91, Professor in the Department of Modern Languages; the Orator, Paul Shorey '78; the Poet, Herman Hagedorn '07, and the Chaplain, W. W. Fenn '84, Professor of Theology in the Divinity School. Beside these speakers will be the first marshal, D. H. Popper '32, and R. U. Jameson '32, the second marshal, together with the newly elected members of the chapter...
Following the prayer by the chaplain the University Choir will sing the Harvard Hymn. Shorey will then speak on "American Loyalties" and this, after a choir selection, will be followed by the reading of the poem "The Three Pharaohs". Another hymn and a benediction by the chaplain will close the meeting...