Word: myth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...personality of a President is always a myth. He receives so much publicity, he is so copiously interpreted, that the view of him is effectively screened by all that is said about...
This is its "irony" This is the academic forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemolcks and the Seniors. Biologically, spiritually and humanly, it amounts to another prolonged dose of suicide. The myth of a liberal college is still supposed to persist despite this fact. Most of us shall leave Cambridge, sheepskin, honors, keys at also, we shall carry with us a smile for these hypocritic days: also a pretty little chip on our shoulders. If this be error and upon me proved . . . Irwin Rosen...
Said The Great Myth...
Further, The Great Myth contends...
...criticism by reason of its Shakespearian qualities. Harvard graduates, like those of other universities, run the whole gamut of civilized mankind. We have never seen any real indication that one type predominates over a thousand others. The typical Harvard man and the Harvard manner are both of them a myth. Some day, we hope, the public imagination will forget it. The Boston Transcript...