Word: forgetful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...upholder of moral principles (for in New Haven total abstinence seems to take the place of what is understood elsewhere as morality) then entreats the editors of the Lit. not to forget that "theirs is a literary magazine in a University, and not a brewer's journal in Milwaukee...
...time remaining forbade long speeches, and admonished rapid eating; for the train started at three o'clock. Delegates from McGill and from the Association accompanied the team to the depot, and after much hearty hand-shaking the train left amid British cheers and Harvard 'Rahs. No Harvard man can forget the good-will and good cheer which he received from many warm-hearted friends in Montreal...
...There's something else in what it intimates. I confess I am not yet able to be reconciled to the separation of great wisdom from great character. The former, if present without the latter, can lay no claim to merit. If men forget that we have had four centuries of printing, and so seek to make encyclopaedias of themselves, they must pay the penalty of their forgetfulness, for the days of the admiration of walking dictionaries are past. It is this absence of character which these verses intimate, and an absence of the respect which character would have inspired...
...society rooms as strictly as they ever were in the recitation-rooms of old Harvard. The modern student when he thinks of his class thinks of his society. He will no doubt remember a few men whom he has casually met in recitations or elsewhere, but he will forget the existence of numbers whose paths have deviated from his own. If he is not a member of a society, his class associations will be nothing more than reminiscences of a limited circle of personal friends. The elective system, in fact, has destroyed the sentiment of class feeling which...
...minds instead of our stomachs) with an employment which requires no exercise of the intellectual powers. How many hours we fritter away in a hundred employments that we might devote to the permanent improvement of the mind! But engaged in attending to this base body of ours, we forget all higher aims. We eat, we drink, we walk, we loaf, we dance, we take off and put on our European clothes, we sleep, we busy ourselves with Eastlake furniture, when we should be cultivating our minds...