Word: forgetful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other point the writer advances is equally trival. He seems to forget that reference books are always in great demand; if a man who takes out a reserved book is too much absorbed in self to think for a moment of the rights of his fellow-student, a privation for a time, of the use of the reserved books may help to make him a little more considerate of others...
...months. It is a source of pleasure to us that Harvard is drawing more and more from the West each year, and that the claim formerly loudly advanced by Yale that she was the only cosmopolitan university, must so soon be abandoned as untenable. When westerners as a body forget their silly prejudices against Boston, we can hope that Harvard will become as popular among their young men as among those of the East who are now learning under her guidance, to be "earnest and upright; self-reliant and confident; patriotic and courageous...
Again it can hardly be denied that we look rather lightly on the efforts of the members of our teas as soon as the excitement of their victories is over. Knowing little of the long and severe taining at the expense of which they have won success, we easily forget or underrate it. If more men had trained, even but little, a nine victorious for the first time in many years, would not need to wait six months for a struggling attempt to give it cups. By all means, then, let your correspondent's suggestions receive the encouragement they deserve...
Many men underrate the value of this society. They think its benefits trifling because its prices in many things are the same as in other stores. They forget that it is the existence of the Co-operative Society that keeps the Cambridge tradesmen within bounds. If the Society for any reason should ever be forced to close its store, the truth of this statement would speedily be made manirest...
...congratulate the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality upon the highly successful concert of last evening. Nor let us forget the Banjo Club of which the university existence is now assured. The only criticism which need be made to the programme as a whole is that it was perhaps somewhat too long. The experiment made by the Pierian is very marked and its work was strong throughout. The advent of the Banjo Club as a co-partner in the work of the concert was highly relished by the audience, if judgment may be made from the prolonged applause which greeted...