Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...becoming the fashion to cite the Oxford Union as an ideal "Social Centre", and also as an ideal centre of discussion on current affairs. The obvious connection between these two functions. of the Oxford Union does not seem to have struck your contributors and correspondents. I was for two years an active member of the Oxford Union, and in my last term served as a member of one of its committees; I therefore feel qualified to talk about its position in the university. The only reason that it is a social centre is that it is the University Debating Society...
...about time we got away from Stephen Phillips even as a point of departure. To a non-Socialist Souther's "Socialism and Beauty" is not absolutely clear; the one thing the reviewer feels sure about is that it could have been written in a much more entertaining and vivid fashion. His "aesthete" is valuable if only for showing up the type for which the Monthly seems to have such admiration...
...dividends, but the service to our fellow men for which we must account. If we are moral beings we must assume that we hold property, and every other power that we possess, to promote moral ends; that it is not enough to comply with the low standard that the fashion of the day demands, but that unless we do our duty to the utmost we are unprofitable servants. A keen French observer remarked that he had heard of America as the land of the almighty dollar, but on visiting it he found that wealth was valued here for reasons different...
...afternoon were in the broad jump, which was won by Sullivan, of Rindge, with a jump of 20 feet, and in the high jump, which Harvey, of Rindge, won with a jump of 5 feet, 2 inches. The 880-yards relay race was won by Rindge in easy fashion...
...helped by considerable comedy. The piece is capitally played, Mr. Warner as Valentine being particularly well cast. Even the "bits" were unusually well done. "Blinky" Davis and "Dick, the Rat," conviet-pals of Valentine's, were played by Edward Bayes and Charles Craham respectively in so realistic a fashion that each was accorded a small ovation on his exit. By and large: a gripping play very much worth while...