Word: twains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There are three kinds of lies," said Mark Twain, "plain lies, damn lies, and statistics." When the New York Times editorial, quoted in an adjacent column, shows by repeated examples that college graduates do not furnish nine out of every ten leaders in society, it is not to be inferred that this excellent journal has gone over to the opposition. It is safe to hazard the guess that if the New York Times had a son, it would send him to college. What the Times does assert is that Mr. Albert E. Wiggam has played with his figures...
...Rockefeller, Thomas A. Edison, Henry Ford and Orville Wright might conceivably exercise a more far-reaching influence on economic development in America than four hundred minor "leaders" in business. Two non-college scientists like John Burroughs and Luther Burbank may outweigh how many scientific students of lesser rank? Mark Twain and Walt Whitman should count for something more than their absolute numerical ratio. And in the field of polities it is conceivable that Abraham Lincoln may counterbalance several thousand college-bred members of Congress. We face the old anti-eugenic doubt arising from the considerable role played in the history...
...psychology how can the college of today foster genius, cherish the artist, inspire the idealist? Mr. Henry Rood, writing in the February Scribner's, would like to know. And he would like to know, too, what place the modern college would find for Emerson, Poe, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, and their great contemporaries. Being a shrewd observer Mr. Rood answers his last question as every thoughtful undergraduate could answer it: the college would first force these men "to wear hats and caps of the same style, suits and overcoats of the same cut, collars, ties, hosiery, shoes of the same...
...Connecticut Yankee has taken a back seat. A mere Alsatian, whom Mark Twain would have classified among the "furriners", has invented a device destined to transform the entire academic world. The radio, which has brought upheaval and strike to the musical world, the "smiling voice" and unctuous "Goodnight" to churchly spheres, has already found legitimate application in the extension of university courses. Grandma and Grandpa Applebloom have been lapping up Professor Whosis' course on the philosophy of transmigration and the psychology of the billboard. Streams of erudition have been poured forth upon the desert...
Albert Bigelow Paine has returned from France, where he has spent several years in research work preparatory to writing his new book, now nearly finished, the title of which he does not yet wish to announce. He returned to America to find the Mark Twain autobiography (TIME, Nov. 3), produced under his care, one of the most read and discussed books of "the year. This did not surprise him, for he knows his Mark Twain, and he knows how great a place in the consciousness of our people the great humorist holds...