Word: mind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have changed my mind about Barton's diploma. Mr. Cutler (the head janitor) reports that a person who has used Barton's room in Wadsworth House during vacation left crackers and cheese in the room. It is probably A. Z. Reed. This food attracted the rats and mice. No other damage has been done in Wadsworth House. I think Barton will have to content himself with a certificate...
...inspiring quality of the instructor is more than likely to be determined by the whims of the fickle Goddess of Fate. Given a poor instructor, any natural inclinations towards the study of English are likely to be smothered under the soporific influence of the teachings of the mediocre mind, as many who have received their first and last college instruction in English in this course will ruefully testify...
...Truck" Miller, "Honeyboy" Finnegan, "Newsboy" Brown, "Gloomy Gil" Dobie, Fielding "Hurry-Up Yost, "Cannonball" Crabtree (who will be seen in action when Florida comes to Cambridge a week hence), Paolino Uczudum, the Bounding Basque of the Pyrenees, are some of the more common handles that come to mind. Time Out is just waiting, though, for the day when Harvard will have a star who can be called "Rain Or" Shine...
Poetry that teaches is not, he said, the same as didactic poetry. We ask the poet to teach only in his own fashion and mind his own lessons. We protest against didactic poetry; we resent its incompetence...
...associate sublimity with Gray's 'Elegy', or even the 'Ode' of Wordsworth. If by sublimity she means reflecting magnificence of mind, sublimity has certainly vanished from the poetry of the last 30 years...