Word: forgetful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...place. We meet fellows from all parts of the country who differ from each other in ideas, in customs, in manners, and even in dialect. Our country is so large that we are like the nations of Gaul, of whom Caesar says,-what school boy will ever forget the sentence? -Hi omnes lingua institutes, legibus inter se different...
...School man was horrified to think that anyone should go home during the recess. Fortunately all the men in that department are not so entirely devoted to study as to forget all the ties of family...
Prof. Thompson took as the subject of his third lecture on Protection last evening. The relation of the tariff to the working men's interests. Educated men lack sympathy with the laboring classes. Trades Unions and strikes are unconditionally condemned by them. But we should not forget that the social classes owe something to each other. Protection is the expression of national interest in the laborer. The condition of this class did not begin to improve until Protection became our policy, contrary to general belief. Farm laborers received at the most $5 per month, boys $1. The farmers could...
...Kimball should not forget his responsible position as the head of the foot ball interest, and publicly express private opinions utterly at variance with the sentiments of a large body of Harvard students...
...marks of applause. The students at lectures are quiet and attentive, and the late comer or the uneasy auditor is hissed. The benches are scratched and carved as academic benches are, the world over. In the halls of the Berlin University smoking is forbidden, but at Leipzig smokers sometimes forget to extinguish their cigars before reaching the lecture room, and light them before leaving. German students have everywhere the same general appearance, and like the German youth as a whole are rarely as well dressed as English or Americans, even where the clothes are good. The unbecoming flat caps with...