Word: forget
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Lest anyone forget, the book's title is drawn from the fight song "Harvardiana," a ditty by Raymond G. Williams...
...bias is toward what he called "westist: the placing of certain values on a pedestal" and "testist: if it can't be tested, then forget it," Gardner said...
Surely there are few events, apart from last summer's Statue of Liberty 250th birthday party-turned-tragedy, with which to compare it. (Whose idea was it to launch the 300 Gary Coleman impersonators into hyperspace, anyway?) To be sure, it is hard to forget the party the Faculty threw in 2083 when the last kink in the Core was ironed out. More recently there was dancing in the streets when oftdelayed renovations finally brought North House into the 22nd century...
...forget last night's riverside gala, Prince Charles today, the Secretary of State tomorrow, or the fireworks extravaganza Saturday. Or, what crimson-faced Harvard officials continue to bill--for they must--as the heart of the event, the 106 academic symposia...
...there have been mistakes, things may have gotten out of control, and it may be easy this week to forget that Harvard's prime business is education, not entertainment. And when all the chocolate 350th shields have been eaten, and the officially sanctioned pens have been drained of their ink, Harvard will be left in relative peace once again--a bit prettier, a bit richer, and a year older, but probably none the wiser. Despite recalling its birth as the beginning of higher education in America, the University sadly missed this opportunity to re-examine either itself or education...