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...thunderbolts in well ordered legions. His keenness is surpassed only by his Utopia. He applies the spur so much needed in arousing an earnest interest in education, the most permanent social contribution of the age. There is no individual, no member of society who can afford to overlook this living philosophy. The leaders of the coming generation, especially, should consider themselves ignorant unless they keep step with the principles and practice of education. The "Awakening College" acts both as a stimulus and a text book in fulfilling this mission
...building expansion. The new Law School will undoubtedly be one of the greatest additions to the University in recent years. And the other buildings that have recently been erected and are still going up have been badly needed for a long time. The tendency here, however, is to overlook the importance of getting and keeping at Cornell professors who will, by the force of their personalities and scholarship, inculcate in their students a real semblance of the sort of learning that is being neglected, more and more, now that the chief business seems to be preparing undergraduates for highly specialized...
...quiet success, many a friend believed he would be properly rewarded by his sovereign. Now only a Knight, he might well be advanced to a Baron and take the title of Lord Howard of Greystoke, since he was born at Greystoke Castle, Cumberland. Should the Labor Government overlook his Conservative politics and noble lineage, it might permit King George to make him Viscount Greystoke, even Viscount Cumberland...
...College watchmen reinforced by local police will guard the dark corners where erring stags were won't to drink their fill. It is said that none but the brave deserve the fair and brave indeed will be the undergraduate who under threat of expulsion finds means whereby he may overlook the canker in the rose or blur the blemish on the girl of his choice...
...done much to make her forget that dark vale, but when she meets the most aggressive of her former swains, he nearly sends her hurtling down again. Failing that, he forces her to tell her history to her fiance. You are very much afraid that the pleasant fellow will overlook the girl's bad past, which is exactly what he does...