Word: forget
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Many of us are inclined to forget our social responsibility. There was a convention in the Middle Ages that the privileged class--the nobility--owed a certain debt to the poor. The titled nobility, we hope, has dropped out of our civilization; but there is still a privileged class; and while all men and women have a duty to the community, those who receive the most from the community have in return the greatest obligation. The danger is lest college men forget this obligation and regard college only as a help to personal advancement. Dr. Daniel Hunt Clare, speaking...
...part that the United States has been forced to play in all this mess. The purpose of the meeting is to crystallize public opinion in Cambridge, and to make the people who have been blocking the Treaty see that it is the will of the country that they forget their petty squabbles and peanut politics and come to an agreement that will bring the Treaty into operation as quickly as possible. On Monday, the Senate reconvenes, and it is the intention of the would be assassins to block any action on the Treaty of Versailles. They talk of setting internal...
...shall never forget the courtesy and kindness with which I have been received by the Faculty and students of the University," said Dr. Harry Krepelka, the Bohemian chemist, in an interview yesterday. Arriving in this country for the first time a few weeks ago, Dr. Krepelka seemed genuinely delighted by his reception here...
Interchange of ideas is fundamental to a broad education, and the ordinary course at college does not supply that need. It must be left to the individual. Students are so used to having the fruits of learning passed them on a silver platter, that they often forget the necessity of enlarging their mental outlook by private thought and serious discussion...
...more than a generation American statesmanship has persistently striven to avoid, ignore or forget an inconsistency in our American institution whose existence is a blot upon our national honor the criminal practice of lynching. Outbreaks like that which held the city of Omaha, Nebraska, in a reign of terror for nine hours, culminating in the felling of one citizen, the serious injury of at least two others, an unsuccessful attempt to lynch the Mayor of the City, and the successful lynching of a prisoner charged with a heinous crime,--are but the eruptive symptoms of a disease which has eaten...