Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Likewise in college courses, the great majority of men whose minds are normally active and penetrating are content to accept, and retain momentarily a mass of detailed facts. They forget that the dates and rules required in courses are only means intended to train their minds for future constructive work. A student should not regard his courses as a mere acquisition of facts, but as a development and broadening of his mind...
...live in dormitories during their college year forget the large number of undergraduates living outside of Cambridge who use the Union continually. For such men the reading room and library afford attractive places in which to study between recitations, and the dining room is a great convenience for them at noon. The advantages of the library and periodical room, which are unparalleled elsewhere in the University, are well known to everyone. A few have suggested the possibility of transferring the books and papers to the Widener Reading Room. Instead of an accessible library and informal surroundings, we should then...
...Union only occasionally forget the number of class banquets, smokers, lectures, and mass meetings that are held during the year in the large living room. The desirability of holding all large gatherings of any sort in the Union has been recognized for so long that a man never considers the value of the Union at the time he attends one of these functions, but instinctively regards it as the logical place to hold such a meeting. Should the Union suddenly disappear and no substitute be put in its place, a month would hardly pass before every man in College would...
...slight," "Robust Julia, playing golf and swimming harder," Suffrage Julia "prances in the [poet's] limelight." Witter Bynner is not up to his poetic form in "Though Wisdom Dies." Wisdom is a theme which cannot be completely developed in two short stanzas nor can imagination be "uncurled small as forget-me-nots." The characteristics of the verse of this number are cleverness, insight, a sure, light touch, and a sense of the sober humor of the contrasts of life...
President Lowell's words are true. The deep and real spirit of the University is one of willingness to face difficulties, and to forget the individual in striving for the nation. The Naval Cruise is one of the finest chances that could be devised for young men of education preparing themselves for national defence. We know the tremendous need of the navy for trained officers and reserves. The opportunity is open to Harvard men of showing the spirit that they have shown in the past, and of perpetuating the name of Harvard enthusiasm, to take the place of a mythical...