Word: townes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of the example that Harvard's Plan E offers, the Dartmouth faculty bravely comes forth with measures designed to reform governments in Hanover and the environs. So far this crusade has been successful but there are already indications of a growing animosity in the town against college interference. Since experience is probably the only true teacher, it may appear futile for Harvard to tender advice. But the faint hope that Dartmouth will heed this university's career in such spheres justifies some sort of warning...
...most important argument against gown interference in town affairs is one which Harvard did not--and Dartmouth does not--realize. It is simply that the suspicious, hostile attitude of the municipality is not based upon imagination alone. Many a time college participation in town government has gummed up administrative processes. The green hills of Hanover still echo with the legendary story of the town meeting--at which students formerly voted--when the college delegation pushed through a bill for the construction of a subway line to Smith. It was left to the state legislature to repeal this measure. This playful...
...then that townspeople are likely to resent the criticism of their governments by gownpeople. True, college faculty members are not guilty of the same outrages students have perpetrated in the past. But the impolitic remarks and methods that professors are prone to use cause the same type of resentment. Town concludes that gown does not take its problems seriously enough; students make open sport of local government and the faculty is too inept in politics to prove it does not wish to experiment with the municipality as a guinea...
...Harding Davis started sending his naming dispatches from Havana, Hearst got a press that would print 16 pages in color, and the same generation that grew up to worship Dewey and Hobson and T. R., and went around whistling There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, got many a laugh out of the Yellow Kid, Happy Hooligan and the Katzenjammer Kids...
...Chicago last September the Federal Theatre poured old wine into a new bottle and got the whole town tipsy. Their Mikado, with an all-Negro cast, a South Sea Island setting and swing interpolations, became a smash hit overnight, in five months broke all Federal Theatre records by playing to 250,000 people and clearing...