Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your issue for March 4, you say, "Walter Hampden, whose heart is on nobler things, offered Rostand's sentimental hero to the sentimental U. S. Public." Allow me to say that there is no nobler thing than Cyrano. WM. LYON PHELPS...
...author is undismayed. His every moment is instinct with the dignity of high office. Even in physique he is a great man. His head is large, his neck short, his body ponderable. His hat, his collar, his necktie are all in the grand old tradition. The only small thing about him is the eyes, which peer keenly and patriotically through pince nez. Crowning all, he comes from a pivotal state. That usually accurate and sometimes acid correspondent, Frank R. Kent, has written of Indiana's Watson: "By outstanding men of his own party he is privately pictured...
...governing body within the Faculty, knew of the House Plan before the Faculty did and gave its details unanimous approval. This fact strengthens the official cause, even providing the minimum of time and consideration were given the matter by the bodies as a whole. The significant but unfortunate thing is that the authorities should have to take the defensive side of the issue at this crucial stage of the game. If Professor Hall's letter aids in awakening them to the importance of promoting free discussion and inviting constructive comment, it will throw valuable light upon the conditions that surround...
...vogue of saying sensational things about colleges and college men has spread so widely of late that pungent opinions on the subject have ceased to be a cause of any deep concern. But though extreme remarks usually carry with them the warrant of their own weakness, some of them strike near enough the truth to be suggestive as caricatures. Into this class falls a remark recently published in a New York paper to the effect that colleges are not attended for the purpose of obtaining an education, but because it is the thing...
...Life of Napoleon Bonaparte" edited by W. H. Ireland and published in 1823 is illustrated with some of the more conventional work of George Cruikshank, the plates being engraved by him from drawings by other men. The same thing is true of "An Historical Account of the Battle of Waterloo" written by William Mudford Esq. and printed in 1816. This artist is more appealing, however, in what is the most valuable and probably the most interesting work in the display, namely "The Humorist, a Collection of Entertaining Tales, Anecdotes, Epigrams, Bon Mots, etc., etc." The work is made...