Word: workaday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there were not lacking fogies to cast doubt upon the wisdom of so unheard-of a departure from precedent. What becomes of discipline? they demanded. "The Harvard experiment, delightful as it may be as an academic departure," opined the New York Herald-Tribune, "is quite at variance with the workaday system which is sure to be imposed upon its beneficiaries as soon as they leave Cambridge and set out to earn their livelihood...
Precisely here is the issue involved. The new experiment patterns college discipline on that of life. The best discipline of all is liberty, the discipline of self. There is far more of freedom and individual responsibility in the "workaday system" under which men live than there is of time-clocks and rules of punctuality and attendance...
...Manhattan this season sidled in last week. It did not even have the merit of being so atrociously bad that it was funny. It was just dull, inept, feeble, groping, obfuscated. That is all. Author I. K. Davis starts out with an intrinsically interesting premise- a protest against the workaday world that would force a man to the accumulation of money, thus smothering the spark of divine genius. In his play, the young man to whom he attributes genius shows not a flicker of it except through devoted championing by his actress-wife-and she seems to be merely parroting...
...Yard. It is all very well to call Harvard the "academic kingdom of heaven", and we are obliged for the compliment; but in academics, as in religion, individual interpretations of heaven differ. Our academic heaven is not of the smug, cloistered variety that escapes the noises of the workaday world by stopping its ears. We have seen too many recent examples of Harvard professors who are in the thick of the fight to be greatly disturbed when anyone accuses us of "respectability". Indeed the whole notion that colleges and their professors concern themselves soley with members of their "brotherhood...
...common human life around us. The poets are taking deeper hold upon reality. Old romantic poets went to the distant and dead to find their strange beauty, but the new find a strange beauty and a tragic terror in the familiar lives of men and women in our workaday world. This might be called strong tendencies towards the democratic in literature. So strong is this tendency that I doubt whether, if Milton were living now, he would be able to stir up interest in his great epics concerning lost paradise at the beginning of the world. We seem...