Word: formula
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is a game of student v. instructor, learning v. credits. This game would stop and the players either go home or work seriously, thinks President Mason, if comprehensive examinations were substituted for the present credit system wherein each course passed, each "credit" won, is an integer in the formula of "Success." President Mason went so far as to hint that the University of Chicago might be among the first to "demonstrate the courage to calmly abolish the entire system of credit bookkeeping."* If colleges are going to be less mechanical about how they teach, they will need...
PEOPLE ROUND THE CORNER?Thyra Samter Winslow?Knopf ($2.50). Mrs. Winslow puts together a good deal of formula fiction for the mass magazines. Most self-supporting writing women in Manhattan do the like. They have to. But Mrs. Winslow writes "for herself" as well, a less common practice. The better magazines await this work eagerly. Perhaps soon she will be free to do no other kind. If so, U. S. literature will benefit...
...name?" comes from the Middle West and informs us that as much as $100,000 dollars a year can be drawn from nothing more than a happy combination of letters. "Red" Grange, former sensation of mid-Western gridirons and the despair of ambitious backfield men, has found an unrivalled formula for living in opulence with an expenditure of nothing, in the way of effort, a year. Tired of supplying neighboring ice boxes with their heavy fuel, weary of dashing up and down mud covered gridirons, even, it seems, fatigued by the importunities of the camera man and the movie director...
...naval cap clamped firmly on the President's head. Past the presidential yacht Mayflower moved the United States Fleet?98 ships of war, Admiral Charles Frederick Hughes commanding. From the ships came the President's salute (21 guns), from the Mayflower the signal "Well Done"?the navy's formula of highest praise. U. S. President for some four years, President Coolidge had held his first naval review...
...matter of fact, the "Americana" formula is no invention of H. L. Mencken's, though he it is who made its fame. The New Republic (liberal weekly) has long had a department called "The Bandwagon" wherein are reprinted, without sarcastic blurbs, excerpted blatancies and stupidities from public orations, sermons, editorials, church bulletins, interviews...