college

Whenever a school year winds down, nostalgia creeps in.  There is a sameness to the rhythm of college.  While the individuals change, the nature of the average student doesn’t change much.  Indeed, it hasn’t changed much since at least 1920.  That was the year F. Scott Fitzgerald published This Side of Paradise. This novel is one of those inter-war expressions of the hopelessness of the modern age.  And after a century of unbelievable change, I was shocked at how much Amory Blaine … [Read more...] about The College Carnival