Word: veneered
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Although the vast difference between the times and the altered character of the student body are doubtless primarily responsible, the fact remains that the veneer of general education has in many cases failed to penetrate. The world is not slow in distinguishing between the mere graduate and the man who has absorbed the tradition and all that goes with it to make the higher education. We must cultivate the university spirit by initiating a fuller undergraduate life, and by fostering the human touch in teaching...
...have portrayed us as a money-loving people; our citizen and the "Yankee dollar" have become inseparable in their minds. All this may have been true previous to the last year. At the end of the war, however, Europe will no doubt realize that money-desires were but a veneer upon the true American character...
...moth a new spirit has come over our nation. Before, we had given our wealth and made personal sacrifices. Today, in the ever-increasing casualty lists of men failing in France, we have begun to give our lives. Pouring forth our dollars was but the washing away of the veneer. Each life now lost is a cut into the flesh. We have begun our real sorrows. We are feeling the terror of war. As the struggle becomes harder and our enemies seem only to gain, these wounds only strengthen our grim determination. For every man fallen, a brother will rise...
...congruous with a Maine handy man. A really charming narrative, allegedly autobiographical, in the manner of Rhibany, is Ben Lion Trynin's "Rosalie." The truth here to child life, the healthy human interest--even with comedy overdone--are indeed preferable to the usual run of undergraduate smartness and veneer. At the close--beautiful as one finds little Rosalie's roguish kiss--it seems better that the boy should have worshipped from afar unappreciated, as must be so often the case with his like. The success of "Rosalie" once more enforces the lesson to portray the life you know: even "Malbrouck...
...parallels-if, indeed, when we treat of so wayward a thing as human nature it be possible to find two lines of life that run parallel-I turned from him to Petrarch and the sentimentalists. The comparison enables us to feel more keenly the difference between real heartwood and veneer, between a poem made out of a true life, and a false life attempted to be made into a poem. I shall turn back today to a poem as sincere as that of Dante-in some senses as national as his, but which fails of effect because it is deficient...