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Perhaps Harvard has discovered that the medieval made possible the modern and still has potential power. It is by a blending of the old and the new that true progress is made. To be dubbed "Victorian" is to be considered old fashioned, conservative, and even stagnant; to be classed as "medieval" implies unenlightenment, ignorance, and superstition. Yet "Victorian" and "medieval" also connote something fundamental and worth while in the shifting educational atmosphere of the present. Occasionally a term of derision becomes a symbol of strength and mental stability. Williams Alumni Bulletin
...from prosperous has been the U. S. Hide & Leather industry during the first quarter of 1929. Hides would sell at 19½?, then would come a period of stagnation, then trading would reopen at 16½?. there would be another stagnant period, then another reopening at 15½?. It was like a Wheat Market which opened only one day a week, and a falling market in which lack of continuous trading made it difficult to get out from under on future contracts that would result in a loss...
...that there was "food for thought" in the suggestion that utility propaganda bureaus be discontinued, added, however, that it was vitally important that the "youth of the land" should be allowed to "drink from the running stream of current facts [concerning power and public utilities] rather than from the stagnant pool of wornout ideas, pools poisoned ... by the sophistries of discredited theorists...
...HOTEL-Elizabeth Bowen-Dial Press ($2.50). The stagnant monotony of English middle class vacation has crept into this reflection on the malign chance of propinquity. A group of English transfer their habits of life to an idle existence on the Italian Riviera, where, unaffected as they are by the land that offers them hospitality, they depend the more upon each other for wherewithal to pass the time away: tennis, botany excursions, picnics, bridge. And every one knows just which the other is doing, and every one knows with whom. There is the agitated little Mr. Lee-Mittison, pathetically chipper when...
...July 23, governed by the Moon. Those folk are clearly divided into two types. The active ones take a poetic view of the universe. They love to be made martyrs; ridicule makes them even more active, although they feel it personally. The passive type is sentimental, full of stagnant platitudes, lazy. Both types tend to become fleshy with years, should watch their digestive systems. Under this sign were born Calvin Coolidge, William Edgar Borah, Edward Albert, Prince of Wales, John D.. Rockefeller Sr., Jack Dempsey, the late Lord Northcliffe...