Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...often been asked by well-intentioned people: Why do not great poets write librettos, great translators do them into English, so that U. S. audiences may hear words whose beauty matches the music they occasion ? Always the reply is the same: In opera, the play is not the thing. Modern singers, it is true, are trained to careful diction; but even to the best of singers, words are no more than so many sibilants, dental fricatives, head-tones and gargles. It is often difficult, even for a critic reasonably near the stage and with a command of several languages...
...here," said Mr. Clive, "to criticize your President or your Board of Control, but I think it is a damnable thing that they should try to throttle or stifle the drama. In getting rid of Professor Baker, Harvard has lost; Boston has lost; and Yale has been the gainer...
...There is another thing that has to be made clear," continued the statement. "Not only is every one in the Senior class expected to take out endowment insurance policies, but it is hoped that all those who have ever had any connection with the class will contribute also. Letters have been sent out to all those who graduated at mid-years and to all those who are on leave of absence. They have the same obligations in the matter as the rest of the Senior class...
...states provide at public expense university training for young men and women qualified. But in the East, and especially in Massachusetts, the establishment of a state university or of a series of state colleges would undoubtedly set in motion a series of unique social and educational reactions. For one thing, it is certain that the more prosperous classes would continue to send their sons and daughters to the privately endowed colleges, while the less favored sections in the economic scale would gravitate toward the less expensive schools. A traditional separation might arise between wealth and poverty...
...impossible to generalize about possible results under hypothetical conditions; yet one thing is certain: before establishing in Massachusetts such public universities, similar experiments and possible consequences must be studied. The western universities are alone in their field, and, in general, do not face the big-city question. Perhaps a comparative study of Oxford and the University of London would provide as parallel an example as can be found. At all events, so comprehensive an action must wait upon a thorough investigation of the changes it may effect in the social and educational structure...