Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pieces of furniture left behind by the moving men, should grow dusty in the deserted edifice while in the new one-too big to be exclusive-quality rubbed shoulders with people who were merely rich. Again Mr. Kahn came to the fore. He persuaded the real estate company to let his producing company rest the decision with the present holders of parterre boxes. To these he said: "Let there be compiled, by the 121 present box-holders, a list of 150 prospective box-holders who are eligible." The split was healed. The vote went through. The vision stands...
First comes the desire to quell the animosities and race hatreds which, let loose by the war, might well continue to go far toward tearing down the civilization built up with travail and difficulty in the course of many centuries...
...some of you boys can absorb data and general knowledge the night before an examination. I can't do it, and I've tried. it seems almost as if your minds were like sponges under the control of your will. All night before the examinations you let the sponge expand. The next morning you squeeze it out over a whole blue book and the sponge is dry again. But it has served its purpose...
...student to the mere mechanics of his surroundings. For introduction to intellectual deeps and desires, there is a better path, namely, the instructor himself. To him who makes plain without making easy, makes colorful without making tawdry makes profound without making involved, initiates will gladly turn. Charles Kingsley's "Let not the sourfaced teach morals lest they create a distaste for virtue", applies also to education, and with unmitigated thoroughness...
...there in order to see who else has come and gloomy music critics who feel they must say fearful things about the performance in order to keep their reputation with the public, I always feel depressed. It's an up hill job. If society isn't listening and critics let it all in one ear and out the other while they listen to what the lady in the row behind is saying it is no use attempting to sing. On the other hand when it is obvious that the orchestra and balconies are filled by college students I am sure...