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...Time's frequent reference to the News as 'the gum-chewers' sheet' undoubtedly brings a smile from Dr. Marvin [acting President of Rutgers University] and his kind; but it is as nothing to the giggle that would sweep Manhattan if the News would forget its manners and frequently 'brand the readers of Time as 'hairless-browed nuts...
There is no need of forgetting. I am even inclined to believe that any student who has honestly cultivated "the capacity to use facts and see their relations" will find it impossible to forget the facts themselves. Too often this selective process upon which the writer lays such stress is automatic and signifies only careless work. I refer, by way of contrast, to the English university graduate who does not forget and yet does not find his vision stunted. A recent CRIMSON editorial described vividly one such man "who closed his desk at the War office at four...
...breakfast he was assertive, but not deafeningly so. ... I was impressed with the fact that Governor Donahey would be a very nice fellow if he would forget that he was an honest man and let himself...
...these figures before them, the leaders of American Presbyterianism met in Atlantic City, laid plans for an energetic campaign. "The business of the church," said Dr. Henry C. Swearingen, Moderator of the General Assembly in 1921, "is selling the gospel, and there is danger that the church will forget that this is its principal task, and will become purely an ethical society or organization for the promotion of philanthrophy...
Speaking of Republician policies he said, "We haven't anything we want to forget. We could take all the platforms the party has ever written and pledge ourselves to them here, tonight...