Word: forgottenness
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...result has been that the Advocate has forgotten that it is and must be an undergraduate publication; that it must be a medium of expression of the more active intellectual element of the college rather than the element which is merely intellectual without being active...
...excitement caused by the inexperience of intercollegiate fencers in their early meets on University teams is such that much of their real knowledge is forgotten, and wildeness ensues which makes the fencer far less able than he is in practice. Confidence and restraint are gained by long work and experience. It is nervousness which becomes the chief enemy of the student fencer. A spirit of coolness, of relaxed tension, of unfettered judgment, must be attained by him who would succed. The man who is collected, firm, ready for an opportunity or opening, watching, playing with his opponent, steady of hand...
Fencing is a game which, when once mastered, is never forgotten. It is a sport worth many times the labor of learning. But it is a public that wants its cake without working for it, that, in following other sports because they are easily learned, never learns that sport which in itself alone combines the physical and, mental advantages of practically all other sports. In conclusion, I would emphasize again that fencing is more than a game; it is an art, an art greatly valued by all its devotees as every follower of the foils will testify...
...remained for Frederick O'Brien, journalist, author, seaman, and wanderer on the face of the earth, to turn the fancy of a war-sick world once more to a half-forgotten corner of the globe. James Norman Hall and Hector MacQuarrie may follow on the path he leads to reveal a parting glimps of the fairyland that fades as civilization makes its inroads...
...expected in defeat, the Germans practically united in a glorification of the old regime,--a glorification which consisted mainly in demanding the creation of a greater Germany extending far-beyond the 1914 frontiers, the establishment of a solid empire under a Hohenzollern Kaiser, and a return to the never-forgotten leadership of Bismarckian ideals The collapse of the latter-day monarchy was skillfully relegated to oblivion, and the pride and strength of Prussian domination enthusiastically proclaimed...