Word: unrealism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...skull fractured? And what manner of man was Mr. Kornfield's Sergius, so stirred by a chromo, competent analyst of Oscar Wilde's tremendous ballad, victim of the Sicilian fruit seller and the New York policeman? It's very vivid painting of New York, very real and very unreal. Do not all these story tellers need to ponder and take to heart the doctrine which Mr. Skinner so clearly sets forth...
...doubtful if one Freshman in a hundred knows these requirements and the proportion in the upper classes is not much higher. Here the average undergraduate is willing to admit that the Phi Beta Kappa is an estimate institution, but to him it is something vague and unreal. He has no idea what he must accomplish to become eligible, and so he spends no time nor thought on the matter...