Word: cheapness
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Writing has become recognized as a profession, with "best seller" and "book of the hour" as its rallying cries. But as to literature--pure literature which makes no compromise with the cheap, the tawdry, the false--literature is still an avocation, and always will be. The kind of writing that inspired Stevenson and Barrie, that makes up the sum of the best in literature, is an avocation in the true sense of the word. All of which is a cause for deep satisfaction that Harvard has as yet shown no symptoms of the vocational mania...
...trustees, presidents; and bursars. His earnings may, indeed, be sufficient to lift him above the feelings of indigence so destructive to free thinking. He may avoid commencement oration, Phi Beta Kappa addresses, the conferring of honorary degrees faculty meetings, examinations, and pestiferous students. No Carnegie pension lulls him into cheap security and carries him gently downward to the serene futility of a retired Indian civil servant. He can teach in the great forum of the wide world, and as a laborer he is worthy of his hire. Why, then, should the teacher burden himself with academic routine and with slavery...
With the coming of the steam railroad, the population of the city soon increased and congestion occurred within the three to four mile limit. As soon as this happened the omnibus first, and then the horse-car was evolved to supply the need for cheap horse transit...
...continued operations of clothing swindlers in the University dormitories have forced the College Police to issue another warning against them. They are going about from building to building selling cheap articles of clothing with expensive labels and offering other false goods to unwary students. Everyone is strongly advised not to do any trading of any kind with unlicensed merchants...
...cannot crush the creative instincts of men. They are bound to get it in their pleasure or leisure hours, and it is a question whether they are going to get it by the cheap, false, artificial motion-picture, or through the more elevated medium of the drama...