Word: overlook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spirit of some man who has made his mark in this world, and so my talk really centers about these, and might be called a defense of bad architecture. Many of the college buildings can be badly criticized from an architectural point of view, but their associations make us overlook this. President Eliot as at last admonition to the students advised them to look forward not backward, outward not inward, but it is not also important to seek inspiration from the past in the buildings of this University...
...training for a public career begins at Eton and continues at Cambridge has been made too often to be effective, but it points decisively to a remedy for that malady of corruption which has broken out recently, and breaks out periodically, at Washington. Certainly no college man can quite overlook the possibility of public service; and as obviously no man is better fitted to describe its appeal and its disappointments than one who has himself undergone the rigor of the "cursus honoris...
Washington does not like trusts arid does not propose to let them operate unassailed. The eagle eye of the Federal authorities ranges high and low; it fears not the mighty in their seat nor does it overlook the humble and meek...
...meantime, when Walt is tottering into oblivion with his soul leaking out his every poro, down in the valley Mr. Lawrence is pulling the truth from the bulrushes. This he is presenting us as a gift. But in order that we shall not overlook his gift, he calls attention to the act with a great cracking and smashing of old classics. We must be thankful to this kindly Englishman, doubly so because he has left us so many of our favorite authors untouched...
...makers overlook the fact that the greatest assets today in America are our farmers and our farming people, as they have furnished in both peace and war, the able, virile Americans who are the backbone of our nation...