Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collection of estimates of professors and their courses. Some were frankly unfavorable. Still more recently the undergraduate weekly of Trinity College, Hartford, vigorously criticised a speech of the dean in which that functionary had declared "it is our duty to ignore the individual and to turn out a Trinity type." Finally the student publication of Northwestern University has roundly condemned certain members of the department of English for "overemphasis of the immorality" of certain British poets and for discussion of certain intimate details of the manners and customs of the times of these merry verse-makers...
...series of submarine disasters in the British, American, and Japanese navies, and fundamentally by the unpleasant experience the British nation had with submarines during the war. Such intimate contact with the German U-boats has evidently warped English public opinion into disregarding other menaces which make the worst type of submarine warfare seem like child's play...
...readers of the Sunday supplement are frankly curious. They will read about stock brokers and the King of Spain with equal avidity. It never occurs to more sophisticated and less candid people that memoirs of a certain type are only scandal sheets, bound between covers, and, by no possible logical circumvention, in any better taste. It would be preferable to let the dead rest with whatever reputation they managed to carry away with them; for, according to such books, they had more than enough trouble for their lot while alive...
...fatal mistake of writing his plea in language that has just the slightest trace of Menckenesque presumption. "We have always thought of college as a spawning ground for individuals," he wrote, "for wrote, "for men who think. Better a radical with a beard and a bomb than a type--a goose-stepper--a man without brains enough or courage enough to declare himself...
...nowhere else, and teaching looks easy. As educators they are a follow mockery, and one such pseudo-teacher can do more harm by disgusting young minds with academic pursuits, than ten real scholar-teachers can undo. To judge by the evidence, Trinity College has a dean of this type...