Word: unpleasanter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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And yet since childhood the minds of college men have been poisoned against the Bible by those very people who most believed in it. They have held it up as a good holy book filled with deep moral lessons. They have advertised it in a way certain to fill any...
Thus in the undergraduate mind the Bible has passed to an unfortunate oblivion along with Latin grammars and first primers. In a great many cases it is saved from such a fate by the timely, if unpleasant, arrival of divisional requirements. True enough the student is still forced to pore...
Using two saxophones in the orchestration, developing at times a rhythm "allegro a la fox trot," the composer, W. Franke Harling, has created an English opera of powerful originality. The matter is unpleasant, but the art, the intriguing harmonies, are often sublime. Certainly he has created dinner-talk for a...
With the mild immorality of these familiar practices,--as a matter affecting only individual ethics, there is perhaps no occasion for concern. They are part of a time-honored code in colleges; they even find their parallel in the world at large. But in the mass, they strike an unpleasant...
His name was Siddartha Gautama. He was born in a small republic in Bengal somewhere between 500 and 600 B. C. Until he was 29 he lived the conventional life of an Eastern aristocrat of his period. His world was a world of sunlight sleeping in ageless gardens; his occupations...