Word: forgottenness
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...from Major Higginson, has never been developed, we do not understand, or at least have never heard explained. It may be that the first few years of its existence the Union had little time for anything but experiments in the midst of which Major Higginson's suggestion was forgotten. Now, however, the position of the Union is well established, and we know no better way for its new officers to widen its interest among Harvard graduates and undergraduates than by dedicating some fitting portion of it to our heroes and veterans of the Spanish...
...along in the eighties, and straightway started an investigation of slavery in the tenement cigar-making industry. The action he brought about was labeled unconstitutional then--if I remember right--the fashion in labels has changed since under compulsion of accumulated evidence--but he learned something he has never forgotten. He is the same man who sits today in the White House demanding a fair chance for all the people, rich or poor, that the Republic may have a fair chance. Without that, it cannot have it. For, as I said, New York is but the type...
...today, has a cover that is attractive as well as striking. The brilliant central figure, though it may predominate too complacently, shows that the Lampoon believes only in victory. The chief illustration, "Football under the New Rules," also will hold the attention. Here, however, the cartoonist seems to have forgotten his mission; carried away by his humor he derides the very rules that assure Harvard cleaner sport and a game. Of the many smaller drawings undoubtedly the best is that signed M. O. in monogram...
...second, challenges him to a duel with two pills, one poison and the other harmless. Narciso immediately drives him out of the room. The third, El Quidam, proposes that, as his wife is in love with Narciso, he may as well support her and he pretends that he has forgotten his own and his wife's names. At a signal from Ramon, Juana returns with the bouquet of hyacinths, and El Quidam then remembers his wife's name. Don Narciso immediately sees that the tables have been turned and that he is the one who has been fooled...
...laws, we will be true men, and not shiftless members of society. The measure of the man's usefulness is not what he accomplishes, but what he is. The good works of bad men are vitiated by their bad influence, but the mistakes of good men are forgotten in the remembrance of their characters. To be and not merely to do should be the business of every...