Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fads, merely out of the pure joy of mystifying their elders. Hence reports that students at Harvard or Princeton or elsewhere are caught indulging in the rites of the Klan, or in improvised imitations of them, may not mean more than that a few hilarious spirits are having their thing at a passing madness. The only thing which we can be sure of in regard to undergraduates at the season of the year is that they are giving most of their thoughts, labor and hope to football. Princeton students may or may not do a little skylarking with...
...these indications point to a harder hitting Harvard team than has been seen yet this season. With the perennial mid October slump now a thing of the past, the Harvard team is entering on the last month of its season. With a victory today, the coaches can continue their preparations with a renewed confidence that the team will not be wanting in its big games at the end of the season...
Oliver Herford inevitably has, or succeeds in giving the impression that he has, which is the same thing, a sort of literary Midas touch. Everything he lays his hands upon shines forth with the glisten of real gold. This touch is by no means limited to what he writes and draws himself; all he needs to do is to write a paragraph or two in introduction and the body of the book which follows even though it be anthology, obligingly puts on a golden tinge. So with his latest collection of "Poems from 'Life'". The casual reader opens...
Taking a hint from the second of these principles, it is perhaps advisable to go directly to the poetry itself. The thing does look easy, delightfully easy. And then one remembers Stephen Leacock's account of his contribution to "Punch"; how he collected some beautiful phrases from the morning's news, Dog Man of Darfur, Sultan of Kowfat, and so on, and had a poetic masterpiece envisioned,--until he sat down to find rhymes for the phrases! After all it is enough, without adding further to the preponderance of prose over poetry, to say that the Poems are admirably selected...
...good old days, according to Mr. Bronk a class in Caesar took great interest in making wooden models of Caesar's bridges. To try such a thing today would only call forth a laugh, mainly because it would be such a waste of time." And therein lies the key to the trouble. A Mr. Hughes says people are "living too fast". Minutes, as if by the touch of Midas, have been turned to gold. The vast economic development of recent years has undoubtedly increased and distributed wealth, but it has also, like all good things, its price. Because...