Word: worthes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leading article by Porter Sargent emphasizing, which may possibly be worth doing, the commercial and reactionary character of the revival in recent decades of academic ritual, diploma fetichism, etc. Mr. Sargent swells his argument with some anthropological and Veblenist observations that need not be taken too seriously. The verse in this issue is good, particularly a lyric evidence of Marvin Barrett's remarkable feeling for phrase and imagery. In David Parry's translation--at least it says it is--from the Welsh, the orthography is antique, with u in place of v and vice versa. Elsewhere in the issue...
...moments when human values are treated without sham and military fanfare, "The Duke of West Point" is a really good picture. Louis Hayward, Tom Brown and Richard Carlson are a trio worth watching...
...Please charge $5000 to the Houses. (c) To retain the coaches and eliminate intercollegiate events would save not more than $1400 per year. This includes four teams: Varsity and Freshman tennis and squash. There are between 35 and 40 men on these teams. Are not the benefits they receive worth the sum involved...
...with some smug generalization about students hurting only themselves. It is not only a force which cramps the exercise of her liberal educational doctrine, freedom of the student, unlimited cuts, non-recording of attendance, and which will force her to retreat. It is also a frontal attack on her worth as an educational institution, an annihilation of her standards until they are shadowy and farcical...
...recent voting of the House Associates plan on the part of the House-masters may be taken as another reason to prove the worth of an expansion in the House athletic program. One consideration, however, is worthy of more than passing note; that is, that every single upperclassman in College must be eligible for House competition as attached to some regular group. With this premise in mind, the Committee views with alarm the recent promulgation of the separate athletic scheme for out-of-House...