Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan audience last week, when he dedicated the beautiful new Speyer Organ at the Town Hall. He played Mendelssohn and Bach, and introduced his own Sonata Romantica, as well as Skilton's American Indian Fantasy. The barbaric clangor of this last composition made many of his hearers forget that Yon can, when he wants to, play with such solid gravity that he has been appointed honorary organist to St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, and that he holds his active post at New York's Church of St. Francis Xavier. He showed how even the deepest-throated...
...almost seems foolish to outline the plot of such a well-known play, but some people forget easily, and some may have been touring Europe when this "Cohan show" came to Boston. The story centers about John Paul Bart, who is in the employ of Anton Huber, a tailor. Like all human beings and Horatio Alger heroes, he cherishes fond hopes of becoming a great man, and to further himself intellectually commits to memory many phrases of an unpublished work by Dr. Gustavus Sonntag, the finance of Mr. Huber's daughter, Tanya. Finally opportunity knocks at his door...
...returns to the Duke, who, finding her humanized by love, forgives the upstart and does not kill him. Her royal keeper does not mind whom she loves so long as her tenderness for somebody makes her forget she has a fiery temperament to uphold. Thus, on a cynical note, ends an uneven revelation that a too passionate wooer can play right into his rival's hands. Despite its occasional irony, the play seems to be smitten with awe at moving among elegant folks in grand surroundings. With a first act that sparkles and others that go diminuendo, Miss...
...these sparks would have set it on fire, had it been filled with hydrogen, Dr. Howe-through the pages of his journal-demanded to know why this important fact has been overlooked in official and press discussions. "What is back of this obvious effort to have the American people forget helium...
Then it is said that there is more esprit de corps in an Oxford college than in one of our classes. In this connection we must not forget that when a man goes to Oxford he thinks of himself not so much as an Oxford man but as a New College man or a Trinity man. His feelings towards his college correspond to the devotion of all Harvard men to their University. Class loyalty is only secondary to the other and in fact the outstanding purpose of class organization in college, as thereafter, is that of furthering the interests...