Word: olds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does involve more than the ordinary subject matter such as is found in average short story magazines of the present day. The person who has never taught himself to hunt out, or con over the books of some of the mighty masters of fiction with their galaxy of robust old speech, and words and philosophy that men have come to venerate and love so much that now they are called classic, then has that individual done his mind and himself a grave injustice. He has denied himself the opportunity to cultivate his mind by the infiltration of rare thoughts...
Before the war Mr. Sassoon was practically unknown as a poet, but in 1918, on the publication of "The Old Huntsmen," he suddenly became known as one of England's leading young poets. The war, changing his point of view and his style effected this sudden rise to fame...
...here. Once again advertisers have rallied round, editors have done their best with the little space left for them, contributors have laboriously given of their wit, and the whole has been by some benevolent genius framed into a well designed and effectively printed magazine. The formula, of course is old. One operatic burlesque, at least one biblical parody, seasoning in the form of an occasional lapse from good taste (if any there be benighted enough to notice such things), the conventional allusions to Mr. Cram, Terry and University Hall-these are the essentials of a routine Lampoon. These are here...
...fact that Harvard University has added Frank A. Vanderlip to the staff of its Graduate School of Business Administration, to serve "with no stipend" as lecture on business economics, shows the evolution of college instruction away from the old fundamentals of Greek and Latin. Apparently a shrewd appreciation of student demands has dictated the appointment. At an institution of learning which more and more "prepares" for a Wall Street career, the classroom of the former President of the National City Bank ought to be thronged...
...there to be a run on bank Presidents as other universities perceive the necessity of competing with Harvard in business instruction? The addition of "dollar-a-year men" eminent in finance to the faculties of American colleges will exemplify a curiously modern progress away from old ideals of a college education. New York World