Word: forgetful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...served up as a necessary conversational accompaniment to every meal," but there is a far more undesirable state of affairs, wherein an athlete, eating at a private table, is plied with questions in regard to the team, and, as the centre of an inquisitive group, is never allowed to forget his athletic connections. At the training table, on the other hand, a healthy crowd of fellows would no more over-talk the sport than in their rooms, and outside of the natural review of the day's work the conversation turns upon anything but sport...
Veneration and admiration of and for the Constitution need not and should not cause us to forget that men--great men, many of them, but yet all mere men--framed it, in the light of their day; that everyone of them is dead; that now the Constitution is for us, the living, and not for them or their generation of the dead. So, the vital question is what we believe we need rather than what they believed they and their contemporaries needed; and, if you please to speculate about that, what you think they thought we would or might need...
...school of Rossetti. Both show imagination, the second especially has some excellent lines. "The Song of the Revolutionist" by A. Davis '07 has a good galloping rhythm, and "O I'll be there at the Merrymaking" by R. J. Walsh '07 has enough human tenderness to make us forget the time-worn theme...
...Princess Ninetta," Strauss 2 Overture, "Oberon," Weber 3 Waltz, "Meerleuchten," Ziehrer 4 Selection, "La Grande Duchesse," Offenbach 5 Scarf Dance from "Callirhoe," Chaminade 6 Overture, "Mignon," A. Thomas 7 Selection, "Cavalleria Rusticana," Mascagni 8 Slavonic Dance, Dvorak 9 Overture, "Barber of Seville," Rossini 10 Waltz, "Kaiser," Strauss 11 Intermezzo, "Forget me Not," Macbeth 12 March, "Vienna Dude," Wagner
...general exhortations to economy though they serve to remind us of a duty which we must never forget, and which it is a constant fight to enforce in detail, still they are of no great aid unless accompanied by suggestions of a more specific nature...