Word: words
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While so many of your readers seem to be writing detractions of your red-bordered cover [TIME, Jan. 31, Feb. 14, April 18. May 2, 9, and June 13], I wish to offer a constructive suggestion. Your cover is already red and white, so why not print the word TIME in blue? Then change your subhead from "The Weekly Newsmagazine" to "The National Weekly" (this also in blue...
They were wrong; they were soldiers and fighters as well. They stood with courage the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune of the decade that followed. And at the time they did perhaps not fully perceive that Tonio Kroeger's last word was not the same hopeless gesture as was the one at the end of "Buddenbrooks". There was something quite hopeful and very determined about it. And this positive feature became apparent also in the author's future production...
...classical dogma which was to be beaten down, so today it is the dogma of the nursery, that dogma which demands the professorial apron strings, face cloth, and Ivory soap. That dogma has turned undergraduate energy and responsible initiative into the great field described so often by the word collegiate. It has lead to a condition where a certain Southern university, which is still holding its classes in a discarded hotel, is campaigning vigorously for a million dollar stadium. Undergraduates and Faculty-alike have aroused to the danger. The former is demanding, the latter is providing, opportunities for scholastic freedom...
...Word received from Yale stated that 24 hours before closing time the Yale men has overapplied for the boat race by some 450, and that the usual last minute rush would mean that that number of over applications might be tripled...
Some thoughtful person once declared that "the pen is mightier than the sword" and thus opened up a question which has been the subject of debate for many, many-years. Of course the phrase was used in a general sense, implying that the written word has more power and influence than have the implements of war. But it is interesting to note the fact that the statement taken literally is at present well night out of date...