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...faculties, then," writes Professor Mussey, "will only forget their methods and devices, their endowments and equipment and paraphernalia, their hopes of prosperity and success, of riches and power, their hordes of so-called students indifferent and incompetent--if they will but forget all these and center, their thought on that youth of the starry eyes and the dream in his heart: if they will but see him as the child of this puzzling, fascinating, maddening world of yesterday and today, inheritor of its riches, its traditions, its burdens, its sins: will see him as a maker of the world...
Those who would remodel the present college educational system, seeing in its products too many defects for any hope of accomplished perfection often forget completely the necessity for strong and capable direction in primary and secondary school work. There is far too little known in this day of changing conceptions and fluctuating principles about the exact mental, physical, and moral discipline which the modern child requires. With the home leaning, from either ignorance or pure selfishness, upon the school, a higher type of educator is most necessary that the colleges need not click their gates against faces more ambitious than...
Miss Mackaill is a delightfully queer and intriguingly dear person (I can't forget those subtitles) and one just knows she has it. But the direction decided to make an intimate story more intimate by confining it to a series of close ups. And no girl, as the hook nose of the Armenian who admitted he was an Armenian and was therefore probably an Armenian since no one would call himself an Armenian if it weren't once suggested, can really be attractive beneath a microscope. Though she can dance, very well or more or less, as The Honorable Peter...
...little to the neighbors. It meant much to musicians. They knew that Mrs. Roy Emerson Whittern is also Ethel Leginska,* famed more for her disappearances than for her appearances. They were interested to hear that Leginska says she has definitely retired from the concert stage: "The public will soon forget me as a pianist and I shall be glad. No one knows how I have suffered for the past 17 years every time I have been obliged to face an audience. Concert playing may be spectacular, but the great art is in composing and conducting. I am never frightened when...
Otto Hermann Kahn lets himself get into print so much as a patron of art and music that readers tend to forget Kahn the great international banker, member of Kuhn, Loeb...