Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...these days of academic self-analysis, the intellectual calibre of the American undergraduate finds few admirers or defenders. Professors speak resignedly of the poverty of his background and imagination. Even the undergraduate himself in college editorials confesses that the student soul vibrates reluctantly to the larger intellectual and social issues of the day. The absorption in petty gossip, sports, class politics, fraternity life, suggests that too many undergraduates regard their college in the light of a glorified preparatory school where the activities of their boyhood may be worked out on a grandiose scale. They do not act as if they...
...dramatic story of the adventures of two bad boys and a clever dog, the latter being in the New York Heralds estimation, the leading "man", who "played" with finesse and "tact". "Young America" was written round the juvenile court idea, and with this institution as a background; the author has treated the life of the youthful offenders with such understanding sympathy that he brought forth many such comments as that of the New York press: "Memory fails to bring to mind a more human and affecting bit of playwriting than this modest and unassuming little piece...
...trophy, to be first awarded for this year's entrance examinations, is a bronze bas-relief showing a student figure, with the statue of John Harvard in the background. It has been executed by Mr. R. H. Reccia of Boston, and will be on exhibition in the Union in a few weeks. At the end of ten years it will be awarded permanently to the school that has done best during this period...
...pencil drawings of Ypres by the early English master, Samuel Prout (1783-1852) have recently been placed on exhibition. Both drawings were made from the Grande Place, and represent the Hotel de Ville. In one of them the square tower of the famous Cloth Hall appears in the background, and the other one shows two corner turrets and a bit of the Cathedral of St. Martin. These buildings are particularly interesting in the eyes of the world now, because they are said to have been destroyed in the last few weeks by artillery fire...
Handkerchiefs will be sold on the trains en route to New Haven and at the Bowl. Large white handkerchiefs are provided in order that the "H" itself may be prominent against the background...