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...present time many colleges still have rules forbidding students with connubial connections, presupposing that the duties of the home will prevent paying proper attention to university activities. They forget that such functions as undergraduate dances with happily married couples will be much less disconcerting affairs than they are at present. Such events as unofficial competitions to attain the honor of being the most popular girl will be distinctly discouraged. And, the time formerly wasted in trying to attain the favors of the college widow or her male prototype will be devoted to the profitable occupation of helping the wife with...
...rate the value of college training on a dollar and cents basis, state authorities are sure to administer even the most carefully constructed statutes in a mode dangerous to liberal tradition. To regulate the opportunity for the study of the arts and sciences by financial consideration is to forget completely the cultural motive behind these studies. Were Mr. Clark's state regulation to operate, learning for its own sake might easily be pushed aside, and universities become mere factories to feed professional ranks. One would prefer to find the remedy for the conditions which Mr. Clark discovers in a gradual...
...Frenchman had departed, Lawrence flew off the handle and protested bitterly at the inconvenience to which he had been put. He said he was sick of being accused of fomenting every revolt that came along. The Under Secretary was sympathetic, but suggested that Lawrence return immediately to Sussex and forget all about it. He added, however, that if ever he could do the other a favor-within reason-Lawrence should call upon him. "You can," said Lawrence, "get me back in the Air Force." And it was done...
Romanticist: But you forget that the terrific outlay on gown of the modern girl is, in the long run, more than equivalent to the sums which the boy friend spends...
Calvin Coolidge will forget neither these things, nor many more - that hot summer when his younger son, Calvin Coolidge Jr., overcome by a deadly infection, passed away; the cold winter when his father, Col. John Calvin Coolidge, was laid to rest beneath New England snows...