Word: reminded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...straight and narrow path for the festivities of one occasion, however great it was. Over the wretched ones who have had their first drunken debauch we can no longer be mirthful; we must show them that such is not the stuff of which true life is made. We must remind the erring that folly in a Freshman leads to shame in a grown man, and looseness among its students brings a great, noble university into ill repute. FESSENDEN A. NICHOLS...
...inform new students and remind old ones we reprint the following paragraph which customarily precedes communications in this column...
...many people are doing it in a very exaggerated and dangerous way. Great numbers of good men and women are seriously alarmed today at ideas that are being propagated and they think that by shutting their own ears and the mouths of others the danger can be escaped. They remind one of the people in Kingsley's Water Babies, who walked backwards saying "Don't tell us!" But surely the way to overcome a wrong opinion is not to silence it, but to show its falsity...
...pigeon-hole their worst performance of the year and sent it along to Lampy; and partly of the ponderous jests of men who were once elected to the staff through their own sheer industry or the editors' inadvertence, and who insist on contributing to graduates' numbers just to remind an astonished public that they once were of the company of wits...
...Little Love Birds," the song upon which the comedy depends most, cannot but remind one of "The Love Nest," somewhat by its theme, somewhat by its music. But if not lasting, it is at least successful, and this may well be said of the whole production...