Word: symptoms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first symptom was Miss Isadora Duncan. Her husband was a Russian poet, and she herself of doubtful sentiments: wherefore she was detained at Ellis Island, on whispered rumor that she came not altogether for art's sake. However innocent her previous color, such a reception could have only one effect, and her Boston exhibition was to be expected. But, Cincinnati, fore-warned, was spared from her baleful influence. Madame Gadski followed her; but the American Legion was awake to its duty. "Music hath charms", they remembered, and decided that her voice should be no incantation, like the Lorelei...
...member of the newly materialized class of '25, I hope that I will not be thought presuming if I venture a few words, in a critical vein, unfortunately, on the editorial which appeared in the issue of October 4th entitled "A Dire Symptom...
...remedy of the present case is obvious and simple, and lies with the men themselves, especially the Freshmen. Rather than consider that an unescapable period of decay has set in, let us say that a menacing symptom has shown itself--and let's get rid of it bag and baggage. PHILIP WALKER...
...factors lead to a period of great prosperity, as in Rome 2000 years ago, or at Harvard today. Prosperity, in turn, by a rule never known to fall, leads to a moral slackening, slight at first, later accelerated--which ultimately results in the downfall of the society. The first symptom of this period of decadence is seen when the authorities find it necessary to make the laws more strict. In Rome the liberal republic gave way to a tyrannical monarchy; at Harvard the gentle "should" is changed to the imperative...
...Harvard, despair of hope! The fatal symptom cannot be mistaken. The oldest college in America has reached the apex of its glory. We can now only pray that its period of decadence be as long drawn out as was Rome...