Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...have become a true delight. The actor freed from the hard work and the notoriety of today will devote himself to his art and fulfill the real duties of a citizen. We are beginning to realize that the theatre is not merely a place "for the wise to seek foolish gratification and the foolish to remain so." Let everybody help free the theatre from this commercial bondage. The opposition will be vigorous; but we must remember that there is a far greater issue at stake than merely the theatre. If art is to survive in the State, we must liberate...
...necessary in hopes that the experiment will succeed, rather than commit itself to the only other alternative, the preservation of the banners between sheets of glass,--an alternative which is expensive, necessitates the taking down of the banners altogether, and may at any moment be proved to have been foolish and unnecessary. It is for the purpose of going on with the work of preserving the banners, as soon as the experiments warrant, that we are reserving this surplus fund. Taken all in all, then, I do not think that we are as black as your correspondent paints...
...received, however, proves that our lack of old traditions is not due to anything fundamentally opposed to them in the nature of Harvard undergraduates. We must explain it by the fact that a revolt against provincial customs has gone too far, and that in ridiculing many of the seemingly foolish usages of smaller colleges we are over anxious to be free from anything similar. An example of the better sort of tradition is that which some years ago prompted undergraduates to remove their hats when passing through the Newell Gate, out of respect for the man whose name it bears...
...obtain the use of some book during the rush hours. The indifference shown to the wishes of borrowers is in marked contrast to the courteous attention of librarians in many of our public libraries. Although we realize that the position must be a trying one, and that many foolish and useless questions are asked, nevertheless the attendants are paid to help find and distributed the books, and long service and thorough knowledge of the shelves is no excuse for curt answers and halfhearted assistance...
...money and always will do so as long as it is to be a College which is loved at all. To be a real College it must give more than it gets, and the idea of trying to make the books balance in cold cash seems to me rather foolish. It rather smacks of too much commerciality in a place where we are supposed to care for better things...