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...Professor William Lyon Phelps one night last week as he left Yale's Sprague Memorial Hall.* He had been listening to an "Old Timers' Concert" of the Yale Glee Club, reviving popular college songs of the century past. The Howard twins had rendered an 1867 overture, "Wooden Spoon Lancers." Tom Hewes, Class of 1910, had whistled "The Yellow Bird." Another gentleman had yodeled. Carl Lohmann, secretary of the University, had sung Kipling's "Fuzzy-Wuzzy." And the Glee Club had rousingly performed such numbers as "The Pope" ("He leads a jolly life, jolly life . . ."); "Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Glee High, Glee Low | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

Knowledge ladled out in spoon-fed doses, like the brimstone and treacle of Dotheboys Hall, is a thing of the past, but in certain history and sociology the evil influence of the ancient Trivium and Quadrivium remains. These atavistic tendencies are manifest, not in any narrowness or compulsion in the inculcation of ideas, but in the insulation from more than one view of the subjects studied, shown in the assignments of seventy-three pages in one book, one-hundred-and-ninety-nine in another, consecutively covering historical periods, perhaps of Tudor England, or of ante-bellum America. It is obvious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AREOPAGITICA | 3/31/1933 | See Source »

There was no bench, there was no moon, There were no birds nor flowers. They did not kiss, they did not spoon- Accountant Petrov and the daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crocodile Romance | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

...waste an entire column of newsprint in an attempt to tear down the character of the man behind the movement? Surely it is no criticism of Howard Scott that he failed to be born with a gold spoon in his mouth. Jesus Christ began His career as a carpenter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 9, 1933 | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...ordered a cup of coffee after a six-day fast and sent a note to friends at another table, "Sorry to have disturbed you but I have just landed. Michael R." Talking fast in his baa-baa Oxford accent, with the manner of a man born with a gold spoon in his cheek, he began a new chapter of the famed Gerguson-Romanoff legend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Homing Gull | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

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