Books author - "Percy Marks"
Description The Plastic Age can be read as an exposΓ© on the moral failings of undergraduates in Jazz Age New England, as described through the four-year experience of a young man at the fictional Sanford College. Students enroll at Sanford to βacquire culture,β and do so at an age when they are βplasticβ in the sense that they are changeable and meant to be transformed by the experience. But, not all of the lessons of a college education are in the curriculum. To a student reader of the 1920s,
When An American Sets Out To Found A College, He Hunts First For A Hill. John Harvard Was An Englishman And Indifferent To High Places. The Result Is That Harvard Has Become A University Of Vast Proportions And No Color. Yale Flounders About Among The New Haven Shops, Trying To Rise Above Them. The Harkness Memorial Tower Is Successful; Otherwise The University Smells Of Trade. If Yale Had Been Built On A Hill, It Would Probably Be Far Less Important And Much More Interesting.
When An American Sets Out To Found A College, He Hunts First For A Hill. John Harvard Was An Englishman And Indifferent To High Places. The Result Is That Harvard Has Become A University Of Vast Proportions And No Color. Yale Flounders About Among The New Haven Shops, Trying To Rise Above Them. The Harkness Memorial Tower Is Successful; Otherwise The University Smells Of Trade. If Yale Had Been Built On A Hill, It Would Probably Be Far Less Important And Much More Interesting.
Description The Plastic Age can be read as an exposΓ© on the moral failings of undergraduates in Jazz Age New England, as described through the four-year experience of a young man at the fictional Sanford College. Students enroll at Sanford to βacquire culture,β and do so at an age when they are βplasticβ in the sense that they are changeable and meant to be transformed by the experience. But, not all of the lessons of a college education are in the curriculum. To a student reader of the 1920s,
When An American Sets Out To Found A College, He Hunts First For A Hill. John Harvard Was An Englishman And Indifferent To High Places. The Result Is That Harvard Has Become A University Of Vast Proportions And No Color. Yale Flounders About Among The New Haven Shops, Trying To Rise Above Them. The Harkness Memorial Tower Is Successful; Otherwise The University Smells Of Trade. If Yale Had Been Built On A Hill, It Would Probably Be Far Less Important And Much More Interesting.
When An American Sets Out To Found A College, He Hunts First For A Hill. John Harvard Was An Englishman And Indifferent To High Places. The Result Is That Harvard Has Become A University Of Vast Proportions And No Color. Yale Flounders About Among The New Haven Shops, Trying To Rise Above Them. The Harkness Memorial Tower Is Successful; Otherwise The University Smells Of Trade. If Yale Had Been Built On A Hill, It Would Probably Be Far Less Important And Much More Interesting.