Word: forgottenness
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...jumbled and undigested potpourri of fact and fantasies has actually drifted into a narrow defence of CRIMSON standards. Such is not my object. The CRIMSON may fairly be criticised more than almost any undergraduate organization because its possibilities of good and evil are great. Let it not be forgotten, however, that it takes longer hours and more persistent hard work to get elected to its board than to win almost any other distinction in the College. Let it not be forgotten that although its standards may not be as high as they should, yet the standard is faithfully maintained...
...Hill was a great teacher and an able administrator, and as such he will not soon be forgotten. He has left an impress upon American education that can never be effaced...
...institution, but it sinks into the worst kind of unsportmanship when used only to drown out the signals of the opposing quarterback, or to rattle the other team when it has the field. At recent intercollegiate contests this element has been brought forth most markedly, and it has been forgotten that the game should be won on the field, and not from the stands. It is against this side of organized cheering that President Lowell, than whom no college president could be more heartily in sympathy with the students, is in reality aiming, and the correctness of his conclusions cannot...
...cannot be effectually told to go to the devil," the ghosts of the Beacon Hill mansion who will speak only to legitimate descendants, the "not perceptibly running" Cambridge cars, and the undergraduate who likewise was "not perceptibly" attending Professor Winthrop's course--these hits will not soon be forgotten. When in addition it can be truly said that the plot,--in even the best of comedies of manners likely to be weak,--is sufficiently plausible and decidedly interesting; it is obvious that Miss Stanwood fully deserves the great applause which she received...
...make a fetish of degrees. Moreover, in conferring the degree itself we are in danger of relying too much on mechanical rating. The ordinary student is too apt to treat courses as Cook's tourists do the starred pictures in foreign galleries, as experiences to be checked off and forgotten...