Column Brims With Humorous Snippets From Campus
The piece catalogs whimsical campus notices and jokes about a cat contest, library use, diction and language, and building projects. It references the BULLETIN, broken keys, Phi Beta Kappa symbols, and an elevator incident, ending with a tongue in cheek note on growth and a musical friend.
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Amsterdam Avenue
American Novelists and the Change in American Life
Mr Van Doren surveys recent novels to show how 1920s works reflect shifts in national ideas. He traces Main Street Babbitt Spoon River Anthology and Alice Adams to critique standardization and moral dullness, noting a move toward intellectual exploration and artistic experimentation with pioneers in art and frontier life.
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Gopher Prairie
Babbitt
Edgar Lee Masters
Spoon River
Booth Tarkington
Times
Alice Adams
America
Willa Cather
van Doren
Mr. van Doren
Professor Williams and Vanderlip on Statistical Errors in Trade
In a department lecture, Mr. Morrow highlights flawed importsExports data, citing 1919 excess export value around four billion dollars and the 1921 sugar price overvaluation. He warns current facts are not real facts and urges more research while noting the musty belief that printed figures become truth.
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Williams
Vanderlip
United States
Morrow
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