Word: cis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Centralization of University athletics in the regions which, if not cis-Charles, are at least tangental to them, stopped being an idea and became a necessity when a new student attitude toward study was won. The undergraduate has little time for diversion, he never had less time to travel to it. No sport can with justice eat up two hours a day in travel and preparation. It is possible for the mountain to be deluded into going to Mahomet, but is is fanatic...
...yield up that individuality merely for the sake of conforming. There are either three thousand types of Harvard graduates or there is none. The Harvard type is a phantom type, its residence in Olympus or Hades, its character mythical. In four years the Freshman who now explores the cis-Charles regions will leave college with many new and changed ideas, but he will leave as much an individual as when he first entered to grow in wisdom...
...full and wholesome development un-compromised by any of those inhibitions which confinement within the limits of the college continually demands. So it must ultimately become definitely divorced from the college. Therefore those who do go over the river from the college next fall must institute no custom. A Cis-Charles college colony must remain as a temporary asset, not a permanent liability...
...magazines most generally excoriated were: Artists and Models, La Vie Parisienne, Hot Dog, Capt. Billy's Whiz Bang, Cis Weekly-booklets which, with a clutter of others, including Paris Nights, So This Is Paris, Ziffles, True Confessions, obtain a certain insecure circulation by pandering to the suppressed bawdiness of soiled minds. They marshal their pornography under a variety of shams: some affecting the disguise of wit, some the imposture of art. The wit is usually flaccid filth which lacks the forthright virtues of true ribaldry; the art similar to the crude but spirited masterpieces with which anonymous Raphaels adorn...
...mannered Cis-and Trans-Pacific bickerings...