Word: forgottenness
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...something more than flattery, possibly because of our happy ability to forget the origins of our imitations. Of late years sophistication has produced a school that will have nothing that is not indigenous. In the resulting quarrel between the imitators and the originators the subject matter has often been forgotten in the delight of dispute. This is true even of a place so remote from the rest of America as Harvard. The "Oxford tutorial system" has been praised or decried, but not studied. It is not of course desirable that the Oxford system be separated in practice from the needs...
Already the assembled business men had forgotten the resplendent Field Marshal President. Realities remained, and of them Hans Luther was the master. They concentrated on his rosy face, his shining eyes-the "typical" figure of a youngish German. (The Chancellor is only 46.) They remembered him as the onetime Upper Burgomaster of Essen who twice was summoned to appear before the French General of Occupation, who twice refused-and the General came to him. They saw him now as the hard-headed hero who first balanced the budget and stabilized the mark, and who had done it "not by genius...
...number of Freshmen who were present had forgotten to bring funds with them. Unwilling to leave, however, before showing their good will, they contributed personal articles of every description. The following list, issued by the Senior Picture Committee, represents a small part of the donations...
Pennsylvania R. R. is by no means to be forgotten, even if the Van Sweringens' Nickel Plate has enjoyed most of the limelight. The Nickel Plate was quite anxious to acquire the Virginian R. R., and neither the New York Central nor the Baltimore & Ohio would have wept bitter tears at being asked to take it over...
Surely America is as anxious to abolish war as any nation. Obviously it desires to make the future safe for its inheritors. And yet, in this land of few grievances, and little oppression, past injuries are not forgotten, and the voice of the self-named patriot still carries forward the hatred and jealousies of a warring...