Word: forgottenness
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...instructed and self-conscious; the reverse is true. A course of lessons in boxing adds nothing to the likelihood that a man will attack his neighbor on the street; though it may well make-him more ready to go to the aid of a neighbor in distress. It is forgotten by those who urge these criticisms that in military training the enemy is present chiefly in imagination, whereas the person in evidence is the fellow-soldier with whom one must act, and the representative of the nation whom one must obey. It is the social and political capacities that...
...overwhelm Bucknell 41 to 0 shows the tremendous scoring power of the machine. Although the Red and White has fallen before the crimson in ten contests during the past, its men come here next Saturday determined to break the run of luck. Pennsylvania is for the moment forgotten, the Michigan game is taken for granted, the Ithacan slogan is, "On to Harvard...
...University's critics frequently cry loudly that Harvard has forgotten its inclusive character and gone into one camp or another. Several years ago a book appeared by one John Corbin, in which one chapter bore the ominous title, "Harvard, a Germanized University." And periodically the idea crops out that by some metamorphosis our older universities have been transformed from "good old English" institutions to narrow "single-aim" laboratories for academic research. The fact is that Harvard, as President Lowell pointed out at a meeting of graduate students last year, owes something to the educational systems of all the leading nations...
...going to aid a people of whom they know nothing. At the same time they are serving their own country, for if the disease ever spreads to America, its ravages would undoubtedly be terrible. The names of those who are setting out on this mission will not soon be forgotten by their University...
...sections, and his remuneration is too small to encourage his spending much time upon them. He becomes a more or less perfunctory marker of papers. The professor is interested in the assistant and his other graduate students; and the assistant is interested in the professor. Meanwhile the undergraduate is forgotten. The University is regarded as a "society of scholars," not as an institution for the education of American youth...