Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asking for a change in the requirements for the A. B. and S. B. degree there is no desire to minimize the value of a classical background. On the contrary, the present tendency is too much to neglect the classics and to forget that they still have a real part to play in a balanced education. No man should be a stranger to the literature and the philosophy of Greece. Study of the ancient languages, nevertheless, should be optional rather than compulsory...
...caption under the picture of T. R. is most significant. T. R. in his autobiography says. "I forget whether I got into the finals or semifinals." Your line reads as follows, "As he recalled it he was champion." This brings up an old and unfortunate controversy in about the year 1910 to 1912. The writer took a small part in the newspaper discussion: many others disputed and argued. All the writer adduced was to give the name of actual winners for all the terms T. R. was in college, namely: Hanks (over Roosevelt), Fred Sharow, George Heilbron...
...Paris the Mahatma told an audience of 2,000, chiefly women, that "if only women could forget that they belong to the weaker sex, they could do more than men to prevent wars...
Good God, forget it, Bill...
Professor G. H. Egell's lectures alone are worth the necessary work. There are few professors in the University who can compare with him in the brilliancy and interest of their lectures. He can even make one forget for the time the impending biweekly tears...