Word: forgottenness
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...pull the University together. In order to give some definite interest to the club, it was decided to organize it as a debating club. This specialization of one particular interest proved fatal to the plan of uniting the college, for after the original founders had graduated, their purpose was forgotten, and the Harvard Union lasted as a debating club only, until its name was changed to the University Debating Club...
...singular power over the minds of men and women. It stands alone, the most melancholy and the most popular of all works. It has been translated into twenty seven tongues, and even during the restoration of the Stuarts, when the rest of Shakspere's plays were for the time forgotten in England, Hamlet continued to be played. This play, standing as it does among the plays of the tragic period, is the manifestation of some great grief which has entered Shakspere's life at this time. It represents also the impression which human tragedy made on his mind...
...aspect of the play set forth by these characters is, it must not be forgotten, the less important side. The play is, after all, the love-story of Viola, and represents the highest genius of Shakspere for producing noble, high-minded characters, of whom Viola, in her way, stands pre eminent...
...centre page picture, an illustrated map of College, requires close study for a complete understanding. It reminds one of the explanatory maps to Wm. Morris's Tales. The explanations are familiar to most of us, but it must not be forgotten that the page is intended for Freshmen. "Some of our advocates for good roads" would be better placed in any other paper than the Lampoon where a collegiate air is perhaps essential. The pictures of the Yard on the nights of the Sophomore-Freshman rushes are executed with skill, especially the first one, and the small drawings could well...
...citizen of the United States. Homesickness, which the medical authorities have dignified as a distinct disease under the title of nostalgia, must affect hundreds of the soldiers in its most acute form. If the people at home will send the boys something to remind them that they are not forgotten, something to impress them with the hearty sympathy of the American people for the men who are fighting their battles, they will do an act of duty as well as charity. In the days of the civil war the arrivals of boxes from home were the most joyful events...