Word: forgottenness
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...work, was thoroughly conversant with it?should have had the job. I expected it?rny fellow-workers expected it. Well, I didn't get it; some relative of one of the directors did; it wasn't fair; it wasn't right. To tell the truth, I had almost forgotten the incident, but possibly, subconsciously, that may have been the seed for the present system...
...probably even in his case the fever will work for optimism, and he will realize that, as the meteorologists tell, there is nothing more normal than a "seasonal control". And he may also remember what he has long known but perhaps forgotten under the necessity of reports that there is no such thing as an "average undergraduate", except in advertisements for quality cut clothes and in non-defining editorials. And that even if there were, what he did or said or thought would matter as little to anyone as to him. The college that always considers the average undergraduate will...
...days of indignant editorials in the press about Trashy Literature: ". . . We allude to the productions of Bulwer, Dickens and others in England . . ." (the American Notes had not yet been forgotten nor forgiven) - "and those of Sue and others [presumably Dumas] in France; all of which are abominable trash and hardly worth the paper on which they are printed. . . ." But, by way of contrast, and apparently commended, the vogue for Literary Annuals and Gift Books- the Casket of Love, Deivdrops Gathered and Presented in Their Brightness and Purity, the Cypress Wreath, a Book of Consolation for Those Who Mourn...
Describing President Eliot at his in augural Professor Emerton '71, writing in the "Harvard Graduates' Magazine," says, "His commanding figure, erect and alert, his noble voice, once heard never to be forgotten, the persuasive authority of his manner, free then as always from all elocutionary trickery, the forceful simplicity of his language, all combined to produce upon us the sense of a new era about to dawn...
...often that the announcement of a new appointment to the faculty of the University arouses much enthusiasm in the undergraduate mind. Instructors come, lecture for their allotted space, and then, so far as most of their students are concerned, completely disappear into the limbo of lost things and forgotten personalities, leaving little behind them but battalions of dead blue books and seeds of thought cast on barren ground...