Word: forgottenness
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...regular courses. At that time practically every activity which in some degree did not spring from military courses was either non-existent or well along the road to become so. The ink was searcely dry on the armistice papers, however, ere the grim spectre of militarism was promptly forgotten in the eager planning for a speedy return to the ante-bellum order of things. The steady maturing of these hastily made plans is swiftly removing the "war paint" from the University...
Governor Coolidge is perhaps gifted with far greater foresight than his opponents will allow him when he says that in reconstructing education the classics must not be forgotten. "After all," he says, "idealism is the only practical thing." It is in humanizing, in leavening human society, then, that we can overcome those forces which, shooting up from the soil of a "reckless" materialism, work adversely to the finer and nobler aspirations of human society. If we are to choose between leaven and dynamite in reconstructing civilization, by all means let it be the former...
...mere cultured ornament of a practical world but a strong support in time of need. Professor Sabine was all three. Science remembers him for his studies in acoustics. The men of the University hold him dear for those hours in Jefferson when notes and books were forgotten as "sound ghosts" and electric discharges were made real by a man who had explored all their wonders and yet had a sympathetic interest in the misunderstandings of young undergraduates. The country honors and thanks him for the lives of many soldiers saved from German batteries, located by his sound stations...
...success; the level of scholarship as shown by the records at the Office has visibly declined. But in spite of all these difficulties, real or imagined, let us hope that the days which have been spent in military drill on the banks of the Charles will not easily be forgotten...
...national anthem or a Harvard march is being played by the band; perhaps it will be when a line of veterans passes by on parade; perhaps it will be before the glowing fireside where old age looks out over the past,--then the memory of some humorous and forgotten incident or the thought of a friend will rise out of the obscurity of the past and lend to the mind that inward satisfaction that comes from the assurance of a youth well spent...