Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which shows that the undergraduate at West Point was surprisingly like his Harvard brother, that human nature being what it is, the undergraduates of today are not less alike than those of the good old times, and that there is no basic reason why the men of the cannot continue to assemble together periodically to witness these friendly Crimson and of the Black, Gold and Gray contests between their teams...
...Superintendent for throwing stones at the Corps of Cadets. I don't know whether cadets ever had to resort to the expedient of attaching the remains of their meat course to the underside of the mess tables with their forks, for use at a later and perhaps less bountiful meal, but it was certainly true, even in my own day, that cadets, especially upper classmen, reserved the right of taking away from the mess hall inside their blouses or under their capes any choice bits that they thought would escape the vigilant eye of the Officer in Charge...
Heartbreaking and poignant, no less. The glittering society miss pays dearly for her glitter. And the very inevitability of it all, the irresistability of the awful doom is what strikes you. We all know how much the debs would prefer to be educated, instead of just cultured, how much they'd give for an evening with Spinoza or Kant, or one at a concert or a less stylish but heavier play. Picture the deb, with all these thwarted intellectual desires--dancing, dancing her life away, and all because the omnipotent Moloch makes it clear that...
...cause of drawing a certain group, indicate a general desire to acquire some sort of idea of "what music is all about." In the second place the number of students attending the concerts in the past few years has grown perceptibly. But these general observations are less stable than actual figures; occasionally economic facts are more digestible. In this case it deals with the sale of phonograph records; and the fact is rather amazing. At a record store in the vicinity of the college, of the total sale a little over a year ago, about ninety-three per cent, were...
Perhaps of all the arts it requires less intensive study and knowledge to become an appreciative and intelligent listener of good music. And while a certain amount of affectation is admitted, it is not credible that a large percentage of undergraduates will be affected to the extent of paying out fifteen-dollar lump sums for appearing to be an appreciator of good music. There is no one urging the majority to buy records, to hear music, by telling them what "finer men" they may become if they listen to Beethoven's "Seventh" every evening. Certainly a judicial, unprejudiced individual would...