Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Critics. Fanny Butcher in the Chicago Daily Tribune: " A delicate, lovely, fragile piece of literature . . . that very rare thing, a perfect thing in parvo...
...said the Justice sharply, his finger kept pointed at the man, "That gentleman right there. Leave the room! " Without a word the man scrambled to his feet and hurried from the court. Justice Wagner refused to enlighten reporters as to his reasons. Whatever the outcome of the case, one thing is sure-it is being proved that a man, no matter how rich, no matter how influential, no matter how generously endowed with astute counsel, must bow to the yoke of the Law. Over the portals of the court house where the case is being tried, appears...
...like all milleniums a system of education without grades is a thing to be approached and never attained. Ideals and ambitions differ; and certainly the follower of learning for learning's sake who hobbles along with four B's and a C, is in no position to criticise the scholar who finds satisfaction in being in Group I for the mere pleasure of leading. The trouble is that these two individuals with their differing points of view are subjected to the same mechanical system and to adapt themselves to this system they must abandon their individualism...
...philosophy, language, and other departments of human knowledge have before this been instituted here. But the correlation of all these departments has never previously been tried. The prospect at the outset appears little short of bewildering but whether or not the breathless freshman can assimilate the whole, one valuable thing will be accomplished. Heterogeneous reading of groups will be replaced by definite subjects with compulsory investigation and some intelligent though on what men of some intelligent thought on what men of letters have said about the several subjects. A conception, however vague, of the basic facts of life and civilization...
...There is but one telephone in Oxford University" said Mr. K. K. M. Leys, exchange tutor from University College, Oxford, in his address last night at the Faculty Reception at the Harvard Union. "We have no lift anywhere in the college, and if there is such a thing as a card-index I have never seen it." He said that to one coming from as old a University as Oxford, the organization of an American college such as Harvard seemed "powerful and rather terrible...