Word: westerns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Names of 45 men who are to go on the western trip of the University Instrumental Clubs were announced last night by H. deW. Wood '30, manager. The list is not yet in final form since it has not been decided whether or not K. A. Perry '28, will accompany the Clubs as ventriloquist, nor is it known who will go in the role of medical adviser. In the past, a student in the Medical School has generally performed this function for the Clubs...
...influenza epidemic, which is spreading East from beginnings in California and which resulted in the closing of the University of Missouri and other Middle Western schools on Tuesday, is due to arrive in Boston within a week, according to Dr. H. A. Christian, professor of Medicine in the Harvard Medical School...
Beset by doubts, historical philosophers base their theories on one certitude. Civilizations are never static. They are always in motion, creatively toward stronger outpourings of their spirit or destructively toward decay and dissolution. Thus Western civilization, with its vaulting expression in Gothic cathedrals, Beethoven, da Vinci, Einstein, Manhattan's sun-smitten towers, is either seething onward toward mightier transactions, more luminous cultural & scientific manifestations, or suffering the nervous, senile disintegration which desolated Rome, Egypt, ancient China...
...Wells and Bertrand Russell, seeing everywhere harbingers of Western obsolescence, nevertheless resist this unpleasant evidence with faith in the perpetual constructive force of human will & intellect. Oswald Spengler of Munich scorns such precarious optimism as only another instance of the pathetic pride which Romans, Egyptians and Orientals felt at the height of their refulgence...
Spengler is historian, mathematician, esthete, economist, political scientist, philosopher. With a curious and powerful alternation of Teutonic intellectual despotism and entranced mysticism, he analyzes history by huge analogies. Civilizations he sees as emerging & disappearing in cycles, each one, like a flower, experiencing birth, growth, decay, death. Our own Western civilization he declares to be in the phase of decay, characterized by material expansion, effete spirituality. Collapse is imminent in perhaps 300 years. But by that time another human group will be unwittingly generating a new civilization to flourish and sink in its own long turn. Herein lies the refutation...