Word: forgottenness
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Curtailment, further handicap, more lead to the anchor. It's as absurd as it is typical. If that small, quaint, and old-fashioned distinction of issue between victory and defeat be not forgotten, if it bear any weight with those men in whom the injudicious restraint of athletics now lies, or if they are affected in any way by the existence of conditions which breed all over the country a broadcast belittlement of the University, why in the name of conscience and common sense don't they either abolish absolutely or let alone...
These words, beautiful in themselves, but long since forgotten, are the only memorial to our Harvard heroes. A year ago the CRIMSON suggested that their names be inscribed in the Union, and the current number of the Advocate takes up the matter anew. Memorial Hall, as its name implies, does honor to the heroes of the Rebellion. Shall there not even be some little tablet to remind us that in the lesser cause Harvard's sons were at the front...
...thus enabled to profit by the experience of its predecessors, to avoid their mistakes and improve upon their suggestions. But only too often, when the actual work of the committee is over, the chairman either neglects this duty altogether, or draws up his report long after he has forgotten all the finer points that his experience has taught. Reports of the more conscientious committeemen are not infrequently mislaid, simply because there is no place, where they may be stored for reference in future years...
...most ambitious piece of verse is "Poet and Philistine." This is so long and circumstantial that one is tempted, forgetting the point, to look on it merely as an enumeration of fair women, and to exclaim "Yes, but you have forgotten Anne Hathaway and Manon Lescaut!" Among the other pieces of verse, the "Tempest" is worth mentioning...
...final moment is well done. Mr. Simon's "The Blue Coat" tells the story of a poor Russian peasant woman following with high hopes on the trail of the husband who has sought a new home in this country. She discovers he has found a new bride and forgotten the old. It is an elemental bit of tragedy well handled...