Word: forgottenness
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...condition of overzealous progress, With the constant appearance of new songs, the old ones are apt to be set aside. In the interest over the novelty of the new comers the old songs which were beginning to take a firm hold on the memories of the college are sometimes forgotten. Conservatism in college music may seem a very insignificant matter, but it is just one of those little things which keep up a warm feeling for the college There is little enough college tradition now to connect the present students with those who have gone before them. "Fair Harvard...
...said that the athletic competitions proposed are already conducted singly. So they are, but only one of them is recorded at the time and then it is half forgotten under the shadow of the next event. Supposing that a great competition could be held every three or four years, and that the winner in any department could be the champion of the English speaking Race, and that all the contests could be held in a comparatively short space of time, would it not give them much greater prominence and inspire the people with a stronger desire to gain a prize...
...clubs owe not a little to Mr. Rodney Mac Donough who so ably managed the trip. A man so genial and pleasant, to such a degree interested in the success of the clubs as a whole, and in the welfare of the individual members, will not soon be forgotten by the men who travelled under his direction. The clubs were warmly welcomed in all the cities which they visited, receptions, dances and dinners being in order at all times of the day and night. The best clubs in all the cities gave the members of the Musical Clubs privileges...
...weakness of the movement was the adjectness of its worship of all things ancient, in which the mediaeval was forgotten. Dante still was studied nationally in Italy, not as a product of the middle ages but genius standing high and above his period, as he is now apt to be regarded...
...gospel must be adapted to the age. It must speak the language of today. It must recognize and meet the needs of men as they are, not as they ought to be. This has been said so often we have almost forgotten the other principle without which this idea of adaptation becomes vague and meaningless...