Word: forgottenness
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...should be the aim of every undergraduate to keep tomorrow afternoon free to see the Dartmouth game. Too many students have either forgotten that there are baseball games twice a week or have failed to act on this fact. To remedy this, it is suggested that the schedules recently distributed be considered as engagement cards. Not only will this provide the students with better entertainment than any so far discovered in Boston, but it will have an excellent effect on the morale of the players...
...next statement is amazing. The "specialists" for this army--machine gunners, engineers, and so forth--are to be formed from a nucleus of regulars in case of emergency. Are the lessons of the recent war forgotten? The Regular Army took five months to "expand" and to whip recruits into shape. But human nature is ever optimistic. Next time we hope we will do better...
...departments, the failure of the tutorial plan in the present system should be remedied. The average student derives almost no benefit from his fortnightly tutorial conferences, and until the middle of his Senior year looks upon them as an unpleasant and useless extra task to be hurried over and forgotten. Then, too late, he realizes his mistake and sees the connecting and comprehensive values his work has failed to gain...
...spirit that would make the 1919 aggregation unbeatable. Very fortunately, the players themselves realize the cause of their poor record to date, and will show an entirely different brand of baseball this afternoon. The important games are still ahead and the two defeats can be and must be entirely forgotten in the record of the reanimated team...
...student. A distinct advance could be made by extending the tutorial system now employed in the Division of History, Government and Economics to other departments. But this system should be made for more real and vital; it should be an essential part of the college course, rather than a forgotten fortnightly chore. This would enable the student to come into closer contact with the teacher, who could discuss with him subjects of immediate interest and link them up with his academic work. The tutor could also suggest and encourage reading in a more intimate way than can be done with...