Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sick," he went on, "and tired of this whole stupid business. Here I've given four of the best years of my life, and the whole time I've been nothing better than'a fireman. That's all there is to this college. Just a big fire-house. Wake up by a bell ringing, jump into your clothes and run some place. And then every hour there's another bell and you get up and run somewheres else...
Your editorial, "A Crew's Cruise," of April 30th was unique, astounding, and utterly stupid. You snatched at the opportunity to thump the University crew and the coach. . You said "the Freshmen would naturally be the easiest opponents the crew will meet this year". But Freshman crews have been known to break intercollegiate records; and if you have any doubts as to the unusual power and skill of this Freshman crew, I must suppose that you did not even see the race. Because the Freshmen defeated the University you cried "Something is obviously wrong,"--while like most poor critics...
...effect of the discussion would be stimulating the previous mental work of the day would be hardly noticed. Four or five of the student's evenings each week and three of the professor's would suffice for such a program and it should be much more effective than the stupid system which now throttles the advancement of learning. Surely such a schedule might be a means by which some of the vital forces of young Americans could be diverted from their present expression in class-room excursioning, note-taking and athletics to study, thought and in the end training...
...stouter weapon. "The Saturday Evening Pest", a single sheet anonymously printed, has announced its purpose to bring about a complete change in the undergraduate point of view: "We believe--that Yale is preparing men not to live, but to make a living--that the life of the undergraduate is stupid, empty, and meaningless". At the same time the communication columns of the more conservative "News" have been rife with criticism from all angles...
...Love Habit. This is an immigrant farce from Paris which has escaped the moral rigors of Americanization. In the course of it the stupid husband loses a mistress while his more intelligent spouse gains a lover...