Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...regard to the brains, - that some retain impressions like marble, others like sandstone, others like sand, - and his chemical metaphor about the flames of a Bunsen burner calcining the images impressed on the memory to dust, are fine examples of his wildly poetical temperament. But we must not forget his celebrated figure which made such an impression on us that we remember it in full, and will quote: "The ideas of our youth, like the good children in Sunday-School books, die young, and though cremation be preferred to the vain show of tombs and monuments, and the brass...
...course of an hour or so we come to Staten Hook or Sandy Island, I forget which. A very pretty yacht comes alongside, and a man from our steamer (whom I have noticed talking with the captain on the bridge several times) gets on board of her. Probably one of the Cunard Company who amuses himself by taking short trips on the different boats. I ask an elderly gentleman if this is so. He looks fixedly at me and replies, "Do you mean the pilot?" I do not understand what he is talking about, and walk away. He is probably...
...pleasant hours we'll cherish, and forget...
...gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge...
...more to our ill-fortune than to their want of skill and determination, will be made evident by the difficulty we shall have in filling their places. In base-ball they added three more successful years to our long record of victories; and we should be the last to forget that it is to them we owe the establishment of a new, and we hope we may say successful, venture in College journalism. Add to these their successes social and intellectual, and we hope all will join with us in wishing them a hearty farewell...