Word: forgetful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Perhaps he is not aware that out in the real business world "cash" includes payment within thirty or even sixty days. In fact all the directors seem to be under the impression that an organization cannot transact business unless it is under exact legal liability at every point. They forget, or do not know, that modern business is done on credit and not on legal liabilities. A student under age is trusted for luxuries by tradesmen not because he can be sued, but because his honor will cause him to pay. And so the Co-operative can get credit...
...present loose partnership is offensive to a legal mind, but perfection is seldom found on earth, even in a University Faculty, much less in a more business organization. One of the defects alleged against the present system by the majority directors is the difficulty of signing leases, yet they forget to mention the number of leases they deal in daily. If they mean a lease of a larger building, which they have already decided against, I can refer them to a reputable real estate broker of Cambridge who told me today that he would be willing to sign a lease...
...Paris," by W. M. Fullerton, is a description of the country made famous by the historical memories of Louis XIV and other figures of his time; the article is somewhat strained and obviously queer in style, but the interest of its keen, appreciative observations is sufficient to make one forget its defects. "The Renaissance Essay of Walter Pater," by K. C. M. Sills, "The Prose Style of Thomas Hardy," by J. P. Sanborn, Jr., and "Lowell's Political Ideas and Ideals," by H. L. Warner, are perhaps instructive, but hardly make interesting reading. "The Breath of Life," a story...
...Lehmann, if for no other reason than personal enthusiastic devotion, in a proposal for international boating, or some kindred subject. Whether Harvard should support him on a political question, purely English is open to considerable discussion. Mr. Lehmann in athletic matters is truly one "whom Harvard men can never forget" but in political matters we also have anti-imperialists who do not stop at such expressions as "unutterable criminality." Yet somehow their phrases don't per se prove the government wrong...
...four years. Even in December when it was claimed that great improvements had been made in the arrangements of the camps, there were 2880 deaths of which number 1767 were children. It is little wonder that the London Daily News (edited by Rudolph Lehmann, whom Harvard men can never forget) should speak of the policy as an "unutterable criminality...