Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same man fall, and he is held up to view as a horrible example of wasted opportunities. The Harvard or Yale man who does anything out of the ordinary has about as much social, financial, or literary privacy as Irvin Cobb's now proverbial goldfish. Small wonder he cannot forget what he is he is not allowed to. Mr. Morley and the rest have taken upon their shoulders an Old Man of the Sea of their own making. Nor will he drop off so long as they persist in clinging the more tightly...
Seriously, though, Mr. Morley, would you really want us to "forget it"? To lay ourselves open to the charge of thanklessness? That were even worse. There are indeed deep and abiding reasons for the feeling a graduate holds towards his college--reasons which we would gladly make clear to the incredulous if we could. But to attempt this would only be to court a misunderstanding. For, as one Harvard alumnus has said, one no more talks of this than of why he likes his family...
...less to think of these men at our very door forever maimed. Give until Cambridge is again in the fore-front of patriotic work. Give until each man who gave everything for us knows that we hail him, that we proudly call him ours, and that we will not forget...
...that is too much! So the engineers are going to bury the song with what fortitude they can muster. They must put it where the spectre can never escape to bring misery and dismay to the feast. Then perhaps, time which cures all ills will allow the feaster to forget that their glasses contain nothing but Bevo...
...handing out indiscriminately to rich and poor ex-service man alike a few hundred dollars. By one method the entire future of the ex-service man is provided for, and he will appreciate it; by the other method only a few weeks are provided for, and he will forget it. Yours truly. L. B. NONNIN...