Word: forgetful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Another reason is that ignorance of uncleanness is the secret of freedom. There is something terrible about the grip of evil. The more a man tries to forget it, the more it grips him. Even the purest man knows something of its slavery and shame...
...efficiency of any system for distributing tickets must be measured by what it effects, and in the general rejoicing over the success of the game, we ought not to forget that we have still to evolve a method of assigning seats at great games under which the advantage of a connection with Harvard shall be enjoyed by Harvard graduates, without personal preferences, except to the Corporation and Overseers, where preference is well, to participants in the game, as players and coaches, to purchasers of special Athletic Association tickets which are a general subscription to athletics, and to undergraduates. No club...
...closing, Mr. Brown said that in thinking of the men who have brought triumphs to the University, we must not forget, as we are so apt to do, the great number of her sons who, fired by the same great ambitions, have failed to triumph, but have battled nobly...
...Endicott Peabody, following Professor Moore, spoke briefly on the words of St. Paul, "Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth to those things which are before, I press forward to the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." St. Paul bids men forget and cast away old sins, and, not content with mere resistance of temptation, press forward from height to height to the goal of ultimate perfection...
...indifference shown by some to downright dishonesty in preparing college work and in explaining absence from lectures. As to the latter, "able-bodied youths are afflicted with diseases that admit all pleasures and forbid all duties." . . . College ideals are for the most part high, however, and we should not forget "that, when all is said, our undergraduates themselves are constantly purifying and uplifting college honor...