Word: staying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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PHYLLIS--in from Pine Manor on an afternoon's bender and just sick because she can't stay for the tea dancing. To her, everything--including her escort--is wonderful. Her room mate knows a man who is substitute something on Dartmouth's second team and my dear, you should see him: priceless! A light line but she manages to cover territory in a surprisingly short period of time...
...eventually to be "welcomed to the fellowship of educated men." Freshmen are a perpetual and perennial problem, yet they have not reached the point of considering themselves as problems, so others must needs do it for them. Life is too full of a number of things, including courses. To stay in Harvard they must be passed-somehow. Ways and means are various, good ways and bad. A few may hit on the good ways by virtue of instruction in the matter or because they are essentially students by nature...
...such authorities as George Santayana, Bertrand Russell "The American Mercury." But somehow I suspect that they are rather in favor of Mr. Schmalhausen's aim than his method. His aim is de-bunking education; his method is almost non-existant. Perhaps the fact that he makes no attempt to stay near his subject is better for the world at large, because not only does Mr. Schmalhausen de-bunk education, but also War, Romanticism, Literary Criticism, Jesus of Nazareth, and conventional morality. The result of these fliers may be a more thoroughly entertaining work, but scarcely one from which any definite...
...Girls must have as much honor as boys. More, perhaps. For fathers merely go out and meet other fathers, while mothers stay at home and instill tenets of honor in future fathers and mothers...
...where Modjeska and the Barrymores doing card tricks would not even excite a ripple. Small favors should be accepted gratefully; certainly there is an absence of really good drama but there are arid spots in every menu. Announcement of the coming of a Shakespearean company for a month's stay should hearten the gloomy and serve as an indicator, perhaps, for the future months. In the meantime it is not necessary wholly to damn the merry-merry, which is, to some, a bone on which to gnaw during a famine...