Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond would never take issue with Harvard's President and her Fellows who considered Memorial Hall "the most valuable gift which the University has ever received, in respect alike to coast, daily usefulness, and moral significance." He would remind no one of Professor James, who lecturing in Emerson D, would glance across the heads of his listeners at the Gothic tower and exclaim: "Gentlemen, take Memorial Hall for instance. What else could you take it for!" Nor would he visit Memorial Hall sixty years after, to see the deserted dining hall, cramped Sanders Theatre, the squalid ruin of false tiffany...
...circumlocutory and boring address, a brilliant example of how dull a great and able man can be at a formal function. He recalled his distinguished U. S. friendships, expatiated on the profession, on India, on Anglo-U. S. understanding and world depression. Only with the politest indirection did he remind the U. S. ''brethren" that when England moved her high courts to finer quarters 50 years ago, she followed the move with sweeping reforms in her legal procedure, "to quicken yet not to hurry justice...
...Democratic Conventions. Manhattan's Maurice Frank staged the production (the first of 20), used the Civic Opera orchestra and chorus, one piece of scenery. Impresario Frank is not attempting to solicit the patronage of Ryersons, McCormicks, Swifts and their peers. In his excitable way, he likes to remind people that the high-priced, subsidized opera which socialites favored proved a failure...
High point of the performance is a song, "Across the River," composed by the playwright and sung by David (Walter Richardson). If you liked The Green Pastures, 01' Man Satan should remind you in spots of that more profound, more seriously comic predecessor...
...calling of University economists as advisers to the world's political leaders, like the calling of university historians and students of government to the Paris Peace Conference, ought to remind the public of the falsity of the opinion that university professors lead unfruitful lives in monastic aloofness to the pressing affairs of the world...