Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poet can be gained only by a first hand study of his versatile genius, not by a cursory how of respect to his memory every ten centuries. If the world of today has neither the knowledge nor the time for such a study it is better to forget his birthday altogether...
...allow a total relaxation of law and order during the stay in the Hub of the "buddies" of the Legion, those glorious Americans who fought, the slogan says, to make the world safe for democracy, and who have come back to raise hell annually so no one can forget...
...many of those not of the press world, the CRIMSON has a better "Instinctive feeling" for knowing when "something ought to be said" than for knowing how to say it. The result is the rather pitiful spectacle of the somewhat sedentary elephant of Plympton Street trying to make people forget with a puerile jig the fact that a short ten days before it had waltzed "into it" with all four of its ungainly feet...
...never announced. Bouquets. First of League statesmen to toss a bouquet at Court Judge Kellogg (who business-tripped last week from Washington to Manhattan, en route to his home in St. Paul, Minn.) was French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, co-author of the pact. Cried he: "I cannot forget the great part Mr. Kellogg has taken in the establishment of the mechanism of peace in the world. In his new functions he will find every opportunity to make the most beneficial use both of his great ability and his great name. I am very glad to see the United States...
...with the subject of college from the standpoint of both student and educator, the Chief Justice declared: "We may at times overestimate what can be accomplished in the few years of college training, and there are not wanting those who in their zeal to dignify and extend college work forget that college is made for man and not man for college . . ." Striking against attitudes of indifference, intolerance, and cynicism Chief Justice Hughes further restated the new concept of education as life itself, not merely an idealistic preparation for life...