Word: forget
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's JV team could have beaten at least half of Harvard's varsity opponents last year. So unless you happen to be very good at it, forget about playing hockey at Harvard...
...four years. And unlike high school, being elected to a student committee at Harvard does not mean you are the most popular or best-looking kid in the class. Most students couldn't care less who is on the various committees at Harvard, and those who do care generally forget the committees exist once the elections are over. Between academic work and going to movies, few students really have either the time or the inclination to concern themselves with deciding how many freshmen should live at Radcliffe or whether the first semester should end before Christmas. And with the increasing...
There are other stories. One resourceful proctor managed to transfer a non-athletic freshman out of the then jocky, preppy Greenough to the coveted sanctuary of a single room in Hurlbut. "I'll never forget him for that," the freshman vows fervently. Another proctor who had some sort of clout with the administration kept several kids miraculously off academic probation for the entire year. "I don't know how he did it," one of them marvels. "It was a beautiful sleight-of-hand...
...moves met with general favor in Bangladesh, but there were those who were critical. "Do not forget I have had only three years as a free government," he reminded critics. "You cannot expect miracles." Yet even he seemed impatient for miracles in the end. No one ever doubted that his objectives were laudable. Mujib wanted nothing less than to build a "shonar Bangla," the golden Bengal of the poem by Rabindranath Tagore that serves as the country's national anthem...
...many American schools, teachers are overworked and overwhelmed. They are lucky if they can give ten minutes to correcting a student's paper. Some teachers doggedly diagram sentences in the hope that the structure of language will sink in and provide a foundation. Others forget about structures and trust that reading literature will ensure, perhaps by osmosis, a better grasp of the language - although the definition of literature now has often descended from Shakespeare and Conrad to Woody Allen and Kurt Vonnegut...