Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...myths there exists a phenomenon of which the disgruntled undergraduate is too seldom aware. This phenomenon might be called the profusion of mediocrity in contemporary art. It is caused by half ideated writing, silliness and cheapness--none of which, the undergraduate must admit characterizes the obscure texts--and Cambridge weather is a thing unique...
...college cramp may not--in the end--be more than the restraint necessary for ht realization of a creative power, sufficient to overcome the mediocrity or contemporary art. "Man is a thinking being"--college cramp is the coercive restraint of university skepticism upon the creative mind. Does he weather it he is all the better able to accomplish his end--does he fail, he would probably fail anyway. And merely another victim is offered to the gods of learning--or a bonding house on Wall Street...
...Memorial Hall clock is notorious for the ease with which it succumbs to the attacks of the weather, but the Germanic Museum instrument is of a higher calibre and as a rule has no difficulty in continuing its work with entire disregard of wind and snow...
...explosion of some sort or whether it was of geologic origin. Now, however, there is no doubt that it was an internal disturbance, located near Medford. There is no truth, however, in the supposition that it was due to a frost crack. While it is often possible for the weather to affect the earth's peace, in this instance it has not been the case...
...thought of its poesy by proclaiming that the similitude has a chemical basis. Alcohol, announced Chemist S. G. Hibben of the Westinghouse Lamp Co., is produced in leaves by a fermentation that sets in when plants reach a cycle of life during which they reject sunlight regardless of the weather...