Word: forgetful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This evening is delivered a lecture in Sever on "Notoriety in Art" by Mr. Herkomer, professor of fine arts at Oxford. It is gratifying to see that, at a time when so many other interests are forced upon our minds, and when we would be most likely to forget the claims of an art, which does not aim solely at practical ends, attention is called to the department of fine arts in a way at once pleasing and elevating. Mr. Herkomer enjoys a high reputation as a scholarly critic, and is a man of refined tastes. Anything that he will...
...that Harvard cannot keep as good a corps of instructors as they have at Rochester. Such statements are always very interesting, and often amusing. Rochester proudly says, "We have no tutors; all are professors." The inference is that the Rochester men get better instruction than we do. But they forget that a man is no better simply because you chose to call him "professor." If the Rochester "professors" are not above the ordinary Harvard tutor in education and ability, what is the advantage in having him for a teacher...
This last statement will, we hope, correct much misapprehension in regard to Harvard. Many think that if Greek is no longer to be required, it will take less study to get in here. But they forget that the man who does not learn Greek will have to pass at least as severe if not severer examinations in subjects equally hard. This process of raising the requirements must sooner or later have a very beneficial effect upon our common school system. The higher our colleges are, the better will be our academies and high schools...
...mildly, we have not too many electives in the subject. Accordingly, a few lectures in Sever would not only supplement the regular college work, but they would get the attention of not a few who might otherwise slight the study of literature. Too many of us are likely to forget, in this age of the science of money-getting, that it is worth while to spend time upon that which can never be turned into bread. And, here, where we are not compelled to study literature, a large number of students, who make a specialty of science or the like...
While we are mourning over the cruel fate which compels us to toil so unceasingly at this time of year, we often forget, or at least fail to appreciate, the efforts which most of our athletic men are continually making during the examinations. They are training quietly and patiently throughout these weary weeks that Harvard may win more athletic laurels next spring. The course of training which these men have to undergo severely taxes their pluck and perseverance. Probably at examination times when they are exhausting so much of their mental energy, the strain is greater than at the time...