Word: forgottenness
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...generations of mankind are three in a century; of a college they are one in four years. And when men or customs are beyond the college memory of the Senior class, however powerful their influences may be, they are often forgotten. It is almost five years since Dr. Eliot, who had been President Eliot for forty years became President Emeritus, and there is danger, though he is still a familiar figure among us and though the University which he builded is about us, that we will not appreciate the relation between the work and the man. In the year...
...scheme. The question arises as to how the system may be made more efficient. Certainly something should be done to bring the Seniors and their advisees into closer touch. Furthermore, the real advantage of the plan depends on its lasting through the year, rather than being practically forgotten on both sides after the first two or three weeks. One suggestion for Seniors to help their advisees materially is in the requirement for making out study-cards before May 1. Senior advisers should impress upon their advisees the importance of completing this requirement as soon as possible, instead of just before...
...leaven of the number is Mr. Barlow's "Religion of the Beautiful." Though this aesthetic theorist hangs his philosophy upon the identity of beauty and fitness, between which Aristotle once made a serviceable if relatively forgotten distinction, his eagerness gives his article a readable quality which cannot be credited to some other writers on the same subject...
...turns to it for a tutoring place, will help himself financially, and the Secretary in University 5 to more adequate supplies. Each man who turns to it be tutored will help himself, in that he will receive true tutoring instead of the predigested summaries learned today and forgotten tomorrow of the highly organized agencies. While we do not expect that any bureau of the nature of the present Employment Office can supplant those outside, which make tutoring a business, a little spontaneous co-operation would enlarge its field and make it better serve its purpose...
...team first taking the championship five times. Cornell has won thirteen of the fifteen intercollegiate cross-country runs, but the cup was not offered until 1908 when the run was taken over by the I. C. A. A. A. A. It was forgotten at Cornell that four legs had previously been won upon the cup and the announcement of permanent ownership has come as a complete surprise...