Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...take a more positive stand, if we would all cease to regard with a smile the rehearsal of a man's loss of self respect, if the time should come when a man shall no longer consider that he is advancing himself in social esteem by allowing himself to forget his manliness, but that he is on the contrary making himself an object of pity, more good would be wrought than the best framed pledges and societies could hope for." It is notoriously the custom of college men to take a Horatian and liberal view of life...
Your statement that if some one should so far forget himself as to drink to excess at the hall, and be seen by some of the frequent visitors, Harvard would not only be severely handled by those who are always on the alert to find some fault, but would even be seriously misjudged by the many who are unprejudiced. But could not the same thing be said of men drinking anywhere, and do you not virtually say that the only safety lies in total abstinence...
...frown upon it as nonsensical. What I propose is nothing less than that ale or beer be allowed at dinner. The arguments usually advanced against the introduction of this healthy drink at Memorial are perfectly ludicrous. It is silly to suppose that men would for an instant so far forget their self-respect as to drink to excess. The use of ale or beer is a time-honored and a cherished custom of English commons, where no one has ever thought of any evil being attendant upon...
...upon that occasion. I pray you spare no pains. Do your best, and you will do well enough. I earnestly remind you of the necessity of acting with great caution in regard to all festivities. You remember what I said to you on that head, and I pray you forget no part of it." - [Scholastic...
...forget their uses and let us pray for the continuation of the species, knowing as we do that they...