Word: gone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe is freer, more democratic than before. It is a most curious aftereffect of the War: nobody would have expected it! Class distinctions are going. The haremlike isolation of women is going or gone. The Old Europe is dead, the New Europe not yet born. We are living in a time of transition...
...current issue of The American Magazine, the Degreeless Dean, who has never gone to college, gives some of his ideas about the value of a college education. In part says...
...academic service if that be chosen, and probably for some years to come, perhaps as many as ten or fifteen, he must postpone marriage, turn aside from the temptation to travel, live in extremely modest circumstances and content himself with half the stipend of a junior clerk who has gone straight from the elementary school or from the high school to a business house. To speak bluntly, this is a preposterous situation. The youth who has devoted seven or eight years, first to college and then to university study, and who is judged competent and of promise to enter...
...young governess has a good but disagreeable job with a horribly inconsiderate rich family, who treat her like a servant, search her room when anything: is missing. The English tutor never speaks to her in the daytime, but tries to get into her room every night. When everything has gone hopelessly wrong, one night she leaves the door ajar...
...apparent even for those with the most liberal appreciation of a joke, that the effort has received far more publicity than it merits. For some reason, during the entire scrub-women episode the authorities have been in an acute condition of nervous excitement, and now have gone to the trouble of making a statement to the effect that this student society is not to be taken seriously--the only thing which has so far given if the least aspect of seriousness. Such an action, though calculated to be discouraging, is far more likely to prove an added impetus...