Word: forgottenness
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...time". Most men have to be satisfied with this excuse and resolve mentally each year to visit in" on several outside courses (inevitably abandoned after a few attempts), or to "read up" in prospective years of leisure after graduation. But the incentive vanishes fast and usually the resolutions are forgotten within two years...
...Appointment offices seems almost as unnecessary as to call attention to Widener Library. Everyone knows that they exist, and if they are needed, they will be used--supposedly. Yet there are many Freshmen apparently who have scarcely heard of the Student Employment Office; and there are Seniors who have forgotten the existence of that agency, and as yet know little or nothing about the graduate bureaus, the University and Alumni Appointment offices...
...reconstruction. The roll call of America's educational centers will encircle Louvain's literary treasures. The seals, shields, and coats of arms of every institution making a gift as a unit will he emblazoned on the Library's pillars. Nor will the actual personnel of the working forces be forgotten. In an illuminated, gold-cased volume, to repose in an especially designated niche in Louvain's halls, will be inscribed the names of all who helped to make the American undergraduates' gift to Belgium a reality, Everyone connected with the gift will be included in these lists, which will...
...begs the composer vainly to write a song in favor of Louis XVIII. Beranger in full glory: a great scene with Talleyrand, who goes himself to Beranger's house to solicit a song in favor of Louis-Phillippe. Beranger toward the end of his life, disillusioned, already almost forgotten: a great scene with the young song-writers of the day, in which Beranger praises to them the sweetness of love, of ease, of cordial human relationships, and dissuades them from entering politics...
...calamities bound to follow the acceptance of the treaty I think it justifiable for them to use their strength to that end." Indeed as a last resort "the army may prevent elections which are only the blinds of an alien government." Perhaps the former "president" of the republic has forgotten the "Rump Parliament" and Cromwell the friend of the Irish...