Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years graduates have adopted the attitude that Harvard belongs only to those favored men who received their degrees back in the halcyon days of Republicanism, prosperity, and prohibition. They forget in their selfish possessiveness that the college exists for the training of youth and not for the sole purpose of providing a sacred shrine whose keys are possessed by representatives of a past generation...
...Sever 23 Professor Cross will speak on "Sentimentalism in Russian Literature". And please be reminded that there's a splendid exhibition of early and modern American glass work at the Fogg Museum. At 10 o'clock Professor Kittredge will continue his lectures on Othello in Harvard 6. Don't forget Katharine Cornell is in town in an excellent presentation of Romeo and Juliet. Then again there's the Rodco at the Garden; then again there's Three Men on a Horse at the Plymouth...
Meantime in Chicago that same day an oldster from the other branch of the Service was reviving a part of its past which the Army would like to forget. In 1897 Captain Oberlin Montgomery Carter of the Corps of Engineers was on the upswing of what promised to be an exceptionally brilliant career. Graduated from West Point with one of the most brilliant records in Academy history, he had eight years later been put in charge of important harbor improvements at Savannah. To professional distinction he added the social prestige of marriage to the daughter of a rich onetime business...
...Referring to Il Duce's prompt massing of Italian troops on the frontier of Austria, which prevented the backers of Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss' assassins from seizing the Government (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934), snowy-haired Delegate von Pflüql cried: "Austria will never forget that at a fateful moment in her history it was Italy who, in the best spirit of the League Covenant, helped by her attitude to safeguard the integrity of another League member, my country. Our friendship with Italy, destined to endure throughout time to come, is increased by the debt of gratitude that duty...
Readers of Mazo de la Roche ought to be warned that Jalna, the current feature at the University, is not an exact reproduction of the book. But for those who can forget their preconceived conceptions of the various characters it is a film both moving and delightful...