Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time among them, in the face of a common enemy, a community of spirit. They have set up a Castle of Indolence: they have done those things which ought not to have been done. And the things which ought to have been done will be the subject of long penitential lucubrations...
...Wednesday, October 23 his subject will be "Poetry and the Teaching Office", followed by two lectures on "Matthew Arnold" on the two succeeding Wednesday evenings, October 30 and November 6. On Wednesday November 13 he will speak on "Emerson...
After three weeks of the says-you-says-ME policy Keith's offers a most refreshing antithesis in "The Four Devils". This picture takes the not too hackneyed subject of the circus as its theme. Murnau, director of "Sunrise", here too handles distinctively even such commonplaces as a fight by means of skillful photography; and his shots of the naturally more promising trapeze acts are excellent. For about two-thirds of the film the emotional moments are smoothly presented, with the gaps in slow-moving scenes filled in by the musical accompaniment; but as soon as the dialogue begins...
Frazier Hunt's article in the current "Cosmopolitan" merely reiterates once more the cry of over-emphasis of college athletics. The unbalanced predominance of sports in American universities is a favorite subject for the criticism of a small army of alarmists who are forever throwing their hands up in horror at the younger generation. They talk about the problem a great deal, but they never do anything about it. They offer no panacea...
...students of the subject will quarrel with his description of the disease. Predominant in every American college and university at present are the social activities of student life, and of these the most important, from the point of view of the public, are the athletic. Membership in the varsity football team represents the peak of undergraduate attainment, and from that the scale of values grades down through the lesser sports, through the glee and mandolin clubs, the dramatic society and the comic weekly to the bottom of scholastic excellence. Education, the nominal object of every college student, plays second fiddle...