Word: forgetful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unbearable; a statement, which is well proved by the fact that where cuts are not given occasionally, the student is very likely to take them semi-occasionally. Of course the conclusion follows at once that it is policy for instructors to do some "omitting" once in a while to forget to appear at their lecture rooms. In this way a real evil is averted and a decidedly pleasant feature of Harvard life brought into its due prominence. The CRIMSON itself has not been lacking in this matter, and learns with pleasure that a recent announcement in its columns, concerning...
...noticeable. If any reporter exaggerates what he hears, he is to be severely criticized. For the college-man who endeavors to make capital for himself or for his paper by gross misrepresentations of college events, no criticism is too sharp, no condemnation too severe. A man, who can so forget his own honor as to bring by any wilful action any stain on the good name of his own college, ought to be regarded as a source of harm to the college world, and to be so treated by his fellow students. Such men, we regret to say, exist...
...inferior league, because it seems difficult to be first in the larger league, is a motive that results from a thoroughly false idea of what it is to be first. The plan of forming a new league to consist of the smaller colleges, is merely a plan of forgetting, or trying to forget, that any larger colleges exist. But the larger colleges do, and will exist, and if in truth they are the champions, the fact that certain other colleges have first places in another league will neither add to the dignity of those colleges nor help them in their...
...been done away with. It ought, therefore, to be in the mind of every man who uses the library, that he is not the only person in existence who is likely to want any particular book. There are very few men who are so thoroughly self-engrossed that they forget this fact; but we have heard of some, we regret to say, who, ensconcing themselves behind a huge pile of reserved books and settling down for an afternoon's work, are audacious enough to put on an air of offended privilege if any one asks them...
...here are manifest, and if one does not practically discover it when he is a freshman, he surely ought during his second year make up what he lost the first. The Harvard spirit does not drive men to work. They must find out for themselves, and must not forget under cover of physical improvement or bettering their ability to associate with men that the fundamental object of University life is to educate the mind. There are men who take pride in saying that they have never seen the inside of the library; from these men, freshmen, coming from the restrictions...